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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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