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		skydhash 42 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Perl's decline was cultural CLI usage revolves around text and bash is a meta layer above that. Given curl, jq, and awk, you can create a quick MVP client for almost any api. Doing the same in Python and Go is much more involved.

QuadmasterXLII 41 days ago [–]

Throw in nc and a while loop, and you can have a server too!

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