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Re:Things I've learned about building CLI tools in Python by athrun on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @02:26AM (#38009800)
I feel the same way.

Python has been my goto language for a long time, but lately I've been noticing that I've been holding off on writing new tools with it because on the back of my mind I have this nagging feeling that making them robust and portable will take too much work—and so I don't even bother getting started.

It's this trap of yes you get to ~99% pretty fast, but the last 1% (packaging/distribution) then take forever.

But I'm still looking for a good alternative... Golang does the job—no question, but it doesn't spark joy for me.

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Re:Things I've learned about building CLI tools in Python by chasinglogic on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @04:49AM (#38010699)
While there is definitely a higher barrier to entry, once I got comfortable with Rust (and finally stole someones working cross-compile / publish github actions for it) it has surplanted Golang in this use case because it does spark joy for me.
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