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by jjice 2210 days ago
Maybe I'm just unreasonable, but it always slightly bothered me when a JS or Python CLI utility has that half second of startup before doing anything, even displaying help. I can't be too annoyed, since in reality it's only a fraction of a second and they're spinning up the entire interpreter.

Single binary is also another one that really shouldn't matter to me, but still does. Especially for small utilities or web services, it's just really nice to know that I can `scp` to my server and just run it if I wanted to, even though, in reality, I always use a Docker container.