Great, but unfortunately, even when compiled, the startup overhead is about half a second, which makes it unsuitable for many applications. Still I applaud it, as Shell scripting is finicky, people thend to rely on bash features, and perl is kind of over. Ruby was, and still is, my go-to language for this purpose, but I've recently migrated some scripts over to Swift.
Swift does a much better job at this as interprets by default, and a compiled version starts instantaneously. I made a transparent caching layer for your Swift cli apps.Result: instant native tools in one of the best languages out there.
Swift Script Caching Compiler (https://github.com/jrz/tools)
dotnet run doesn't need it, as it already caches the compiled version (you can disable with --no-build or inspect the binaries with --artifacts-path)
Swift does a much better job at this as interprets by default, and a compiled version starts instantaneously. I made a transparent caching layer for your Swift cli apps.Result: instant native tools in one of the best languages out there.
Swift Script Caching Compiler (https://github.com/jrz/tools)
dotnet run doesn't need it, as it already caches the compiled version (you can disable with --no-build or inspect the binaries with --artifacts-path)