Which Programming Language is the most ideal for CLI tools?

• nixpkgs

  975 15,753 10.0 Nix

  Nix Packages collection & NixOS

  

For simple to medium-complex tools Bash is perfectly fine. For example, off the top of my head the nixos-rebuild command in NixOS is a bash script, as is pass.

• exa

  129 23,290 3.5 Rust

  A modern replacement for ‘ls’.

If you know C you can use C. The currrent trend is to rewrite common unix tools in Rust. C++ is also a common choice for more complex tools. For example the DNF package manegr is written in C. APT, Nix are in C++.

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• bat

  195 46,630 9.5 Rust

  A cat(1) clone with wings.

If you know C you can use C. The currrent trend is to rewrite common unix tools in Rust. C++ is also a common choice for more complex tools. For example the DNF package manegr is written in C. APT, Nix are in C++.

• fd

  172 31,668 8.8 Rust

  A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'

If you know C you can use C. The currrent trend is to rewrite common unix tools in Rust. C++ is also a common choice for more complex tools. For example the DNF package manegr is written in C. APT, Nix are in C++.

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