Clojure's extensive support for lazy evaluation and sequences actually makes it decent for command line tools that process streams of data. At least in terms of program architecture and elegance. The biggest mismatch used to be startup time, but with GraalVM you can get very good startup times.
I made a couple of simple command line programs at my previous workplace and the functional style of Clojure combined with lazy sequences made processing an unknown amount of resources on our server a breeze.
I would think that the language of choice for a command line program would have more to do with the task you need the program for and not the command line format itself.
Obviously for performance critical stuff such as implementing something like ffmpeg you would want to use rust to squeeze out every last bit of performance.
yep, borkdude has been playing with calling Rust from Clojure too via Java JNA, so if most of your application doesn't need rust like performance but one specific part of it does then you're not dead for options
I made a couple of simple command line programs at my previous workplace and the functional style of Clojure combined with lazy sequences made processing an unknown amount of resources on our server a breeze.
I would think that the language of choice for a command line program would have more to do with the task you need the program for and not the command line format itself.
Obviously for performance critical stuff such as implementing something like ffmpeg you would want to use rust to squeeze out every last bit of performance.