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Python is by far the world most popular language, and is used a lot for command-line scripts.
by mgaunard 4y ago
Python is by far the world most popular language, and is used a lot for command-line scripts.
- sph 4y agoIts awful package management makes using Python for CLI applications more painful than it has a right to be. Despite this egregious shortcoming, it's popular for scripts only because it comes with a quite extensive standard library. These days I'd rather suffer through the verbosity of Go or strict memory semantics of Rust (which are no concern in most CLI applications) than write more than a dozen lines of Python. Personally, while I think the compiled world has settled onto a few very good languages, the scripting ecosystem still to this day leaves a lot to be desired.