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Go is a great option for CLI tools (even though I'm not a fan of the language itself). Python CLI apps can be a big pain to distribute if you have a bunch of dependencies. I think this is also why Rust and Zig are also attractive.. like with Go it's easy to create a statically compiled binary you can just cp into /usr/local/bin.


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