> I should also acknowledge: there is a perf hit from using Wasm versus pure-native tools. So this could be another reason native tools are taking the CLI world by storm, but not necessarily the browser frontend.
I didn't know about this before, I wonder how much overhead?
The reason I am reluctant to rely on JS tools for anything CLI is because of Node.js instability due to version sensitivity and impossible-to-fix-without-reinstalling-the-os low level LibC errors.
Compared to go, rust, or python, the odds that any given CLI.js program will run across my (small) fleet of machines is very low, by factor or 10x or more compared to alternatives. Some boxes I don't want to reinstall from scratch every 4 years, they're not public facing and life is too short.
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