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I’ve also found it not that much harder to do scripting kinds of things in Rust vs Ruby or Python. It’s a bit of extra effort of course but having a nice self c

I’ve also found it not that much harder to do scripting kinds of things in Rust vs Ruby or Python. It’s a bit of extra effort of course but having a nice self contained binary at the end is pretty handy.

jonfw 4y ago
We've been using Go to build CLI tools rather than writing scripts for certain tasks recently, and I've found that Golang is very well suited for that. we use the urfave/cli library, which works great, and gets you a ton of things for almost free (passing and documenting flags and arguments) that you just don't get easily in bash