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by lucaas-d3v 84 days ago
"Wait, isn't this just like Nushell?" I get this question a lot. I love Nushell for interactive terminal work. But Flint is fundamentally different. Nushell is an interactive shell environment; Flint is an AOT-compiled systems language. If you want to explore JSON files interactively in your terminal, use Nushell or jq. But if you need to write a bulletproof CI/CD script, compile it into a tiny 300KB native binary, and drop it on a production server without installing ANY runtime or dependencies... that's when you use Flint.