On: Ruby: A great language for shell scripts

[zarzavat]

What tooling do you use that’s written in Go? I’d have said that Python is the most popular language for tooling, by a country mile.

The only tooling I know that’s written in Go is Docker.

[0xCMP → zarzavat]

lots of CLIs are written in Python, absolutely, but many started more recently are almost exclusively Go unless there is serious interest in using Rust. It's almost certainly the ease of cross compilation plus the ability for users to run it without changes to their system.

[theshrike79 → 0xCMP]

This is the key.

I can easily provide precompiled packages for all sane combinations and users can just download one executable, edit the config file and be running.

Instead of having to mess with virtual environments and keeping them updated (they tend to break every time you upgrade the system python version).