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WorkOS
The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
Today, I'm pleased to announce that we've rewritten the CLI client from Python to Rust. Our primary motivation was distribution. Although Python is one of the most widely used programming languages, we don't want to require users to install an interpreter to use our tools, and standalone installers are too bulky for us. With Rust, we can build compact and blazingly fast executable binaries for most popular platforms.
The second advantage is performance. The Rust implementation is based on reduct-rs, which is the fastest among all our official SDKs. It outperforms the Python SDK by more than ten times. While this may not be an issue for a CLI tool, it supports manual data replication between two ReductStore instances where the CLI can be a bottleneck.