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Re:Alphabet tops $100B quarterly revenue for first time, clo... by written-beyond on Thursday October 30, 2025 @08:16AM (#45759189)
Oh my god I thought I was the only one. Everyone says that you should be using the command line anyway, but I'd rather use a GUI but it's disgustingly slow.
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Re:Alphabet tops $100B quarterly revenue for first time, clo... by r_lee on Thursday October 30, 2025 @08:21AM (#45759236)
The CLI also takes like 5 seconds to do anything
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Re:Alphabet tops $100B quarterly revenue for first time, clo... by CamouflagedKiwi on Thursday October 30, 2025 @08:45AM (#45759431)
It surprises me that it's built in Python (as is AWS'), which doesn't seem like a very appropriate language for exactly this reason. Go would seem much more apposite.
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Re:Alphabet tops $100B quarterly revenue for first time, clo... by jonfw on Thursday October 30, 2025 @09:11AM (#45759660)
These CLIs are just thin request clients a la curl. The code execution time is peanuts in comparison to the request latency
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Re:Alphabet tops $100B quarterly revenue for first time, clo... by CamouflagedKiwi on Thursday October 30, 2025 @09:47AM (#45759998)
It's not negligible versus a single request. Even `gcloud --help` takes over a second on this machine - actually getting it to do a simple list request takes almost no time longer over any reasonable connection.

Plus Python is notoriously not easy to deploy for - a Go (or Rust or whatever) binary would have almost no dependencies to worry about.

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Re:Alphabet tops $100B quarterly revenue for first time, clo... by seneca on Thursday October 30, 2025 @09:51AM (#45760028)
The execution speed of the language the CLI is written in doesn't matter. Any difference is dwarfed by the slowness of network calls, specifically their API response times.
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