Right, but it's only recently that better alternatives have become widely available. Previously your options were:
- Something like Java/C#, but that would have required users of the tool to manage a second toolchain / runtime just for developer tools - quite a hard sell for widespread adoption
- C/C++ which are quite hard to learn (and use correctly once learnt) for users of interpreted languages which ends up being a barrier to their use.
Now we have Go and Rust which are fast, compile to a single binary, and are much easier to learn than C/C++, which is leading to a whole new generation of tools.
- Something like Java/C#, but that would have required users of the tool to manage a second toolchain / runtime just for developer tools - quite a hard sell for widespread adoption
- C/C++ which are quite hard to learn (and use correctly once learnt) for users of interpreted languages which ends up being a barrier to their use.
Now we have Go and Rust which are fast, compile to a single binary, and are much easier to learn than C/C++, which is leading to a whole new generation of tools.