[jrvarela56]

Thank you for the input, one point that stood out for me was that you prefer to write command-line utilities with C.

Why is that? I use scripting languages mostly in my day work (Ruby and some Python bc AI) and have found my productivity using command-line utilities is amazing with Ruby. Do you do it bc of performance, ease of use bc you are proficient, a mix of both or something else?

[pkkm]

Oh, I don't use C for every command-line utility. If it's something IO-bound like parsing a webpage and downloading a bunch of files linked from it, I write it in Python. The convenience of modules like argparse and requests is very hard to beat, and it would take me a lot longer to do it in C.

I reach for C when performance matters, for example when processing multi-GB files or looking for perceptual hashes that are similar. It can be a difference between minutes and hours of running time.