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> it works well for what we use it

How do you handle the slow console?

I have a bunch of scripts that do the work for me so I can just run that in the background and do something else, and for one off tasks grumble and mumble a bit.

Microsoft, especially the Partner site for Microsoft Store and so on, is also exceptionally slow. Regular Azure not much better.

I guess the big providers learn from each other.

Do everything in terraform, never touch the console?

Oh my god I thought I was the only one. Everyone says that you should be using the command line anyway, but I'd rather use a GUI but it's disgustingly slow.

The CLI also takes like 5 seconds to do anything

It surprises me that it's built in Python (as is AWS'), which doesn't seem like a very appropriate language for exactly this reason. Go would seem much more apposite.

These CLIs are just thin request clients a la curl. The code execution time is peanuts in comparison to the request latency

It's not negligible versus a single request. Even `gcloud --help` takes over a second on this machine - actually getting it to do a simple list request takes almost no time longer over any reasonable connection.

Plus Python is notoriously not easy to deploy for - a Go (or Rust or whatever) binary would have almost no dependencies to worry about.

The execution speed of the language the CLI is written in doesn't matter. Any difference is dwarfed by the slowness of network calls, specifically their API response times.

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