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qaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

I usually pick Rust for CLI tools because:

  1. It’s statically compiled and isn’t dependent on system binaries and won’t break if there if the system has the wrong version like C/C++, allowing you to distribute it as a single binary without any other installation steps
  2. Still produces fairly small binaries unlike languages like Java or C# (because of the VM)
  3. Is a modern language with a good build system (It’s like night and day compared to CMake)
  4. And I just like how the language works (errors as values etc.)

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