Building a cross-platform CLI from a python script in 2009 required unrelated open-source tools to package for each of the three major operating systems. I reme

Building a cross-platform CLI from a python script in 2009 required unrelated open-source tools to package for each of the three major operating systems. I remember asking Dropbox guys what they were using. Having an official way to do it is much better. Regardless of technology, I think CLI's tend to maintain their original size, or get smaller over time. If you choose to use a CLI built with Elixir, I imagine it could gain a web-based GUI without a large increase, if each build already includes a runtime environment and system libraries. Or if a CLI is written in another language and advertised as very compact, I imagine its size will also stay consistent, but might not gain the same fancy features. And in any case, popular compilers or packaging tools tend gain optimization improvements over time.