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It runs every time you build a docker image or build something in your CI

so it take 3 seconds to run instead of 0.3? Don't get me wrong, that's a huge improvement but in my opinion not worth switching languages over

Features should be developed and tested locally before any code is pushed to a CI system. Dependency resolution should happen once while the container is being built. Containers themselves shouldn't be installing anything on the fly it should be baked in exactly once per build.

Modern CI can also cache these dependency steps, through the BuildKit based tools (like Buildx/Dagger) and/or the CI itself (like GHA @cache)

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