I have no horses in this race, but a good language for a CLI is a language that generates small binaries that use little memory and start up very fast.
I can think of three languages that I would use based on that: Go, Rust and if I was feeling adventurous or wanted to be able to execute scripts, Common Lisp (it's surprisingly fast, in the same league as Rust, for small programs).
Does Elixir compare positively to those in these categories?
EDIT: some people on this thread say it takes 200ms just to start an Elixir program. That's three times slower than Java, which is generally not considered a good language for CLIs.
I can think of three languages that I would use based on that: Go, Rust and if I was feeling adventurous or wanted to be able to execute scripts, Common Lisp (it's surprisingly fast, in the same league as Rust, for small programs).
Does Elixir compare positively to those in these categories?
EDIT: some people on this thread say it takes 200ms just to start an Elixir program. That's three times slower than Java, which is generally not considered a good language for CLIs.