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CharlesWtoday at 4:29 PM3 repliesview on HN

The source is prominently linked: https://github.com/gloom-sh/gloomberb

> please don't write command line tools in non-compiled languages!

Around 40% of Linux CLI tools are written in interpreted languages.


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antonvstoday at 5:21 PM

The standard Linux CLI tools are installed by a package manager, which has addressed the issues raised upthread. Installs via curl | bash don’t automatically benefit from that.

slowintoday at 5:03 PM

> The source is prominently linked: https://github.com/gloom-sh/gloomberb

This is how I found out it's a javascript project and didn't install it. I only even bothered to do that because I actually wanted to try it. I'm just saying it would be awesome to have that right there next to the curl command.

> Around 40% of Linux CLI tools are written in interpreted languages.

And I prefer not to use those. Everything I said for Javascript holds for Python, Perl, Ruby... as well.

rtaylorgarlocktoday at 4:52 PM

Let those be the 40% we prefer less :) Revealing stack does not validate the framework, but we appreciate some foss sauce 'round these parts.