I have been looking for a programming language for simple (cross platform) CLI tools for a long time. Professionally I use #Java, which I accept now as the safest choice for serious enterprise stuff. I have tried #Typescript but after a long stint I have decided to say goodbye to the Javacript ecosystem for anything but Frontend. Now on #Go and #Rust, leaning towards the latter. I won’t consider #Python (sorry). I could just use Java for everything. Anyone want to weigh in?
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@yth I've used #Java to create CLI "tools" for genetics research. Though we think of them more often as methods. Java fit the time and space complexities I was dealing with, and I really enjoyed writing multi-threaded code with its mature API (on this front I'd love to try out the more modern structured concurrency and virtual threads provided in Project Loom). I used the picocli library for command-line stuff. All this said, I could see myself writing CLI methods using #Julia as well.
