It's possible to write CLI tools with support generic plugins in static languages: drop in {{name}}-{{extension}} executables in a private vendored plugins/bin

It's possible to write CLI tools with support generic plugins in static languages: drop in {{name}}-{{extension}} executables in a private vendored plugins/bin directory. docker for 1, cargo for another. At MAANGs, Rust is taking over and Go is waning. Go allows for quick productivity from 0 but it plateaus due to an unwillingness to add features. Rust has a Haskell/Nix/(fancy tool) problem but it has a good productivity curve that keeps going. Sometimes worse is better as UNIX people might recall.