Decide on Language

[nprail]

A language has to be used to build this tool (duh). Which shall we use?

Options

• Golang
• Node.js

Tools

Just throw potential tools to be used here...

• https://goreleaser.com
• https://github.com/sanathkr/go-npm
• https://github.com/zeit/pkg
• https://docs.snapcraft.io/build-snaps/node
• https://github.com/zeit/uid-promise

[nprail]

Archiving speed test:

size uncompressed: 72497844 bytes / 72.497844 megabytes

node.js tar
size: 80622592 bytes / 80.622592 megabytes
time: 10314.633ms / 10.314633s

node.js zip
size: 33935617 bytes / 33.935617 megabytes
time: 9360.633ms / 9.360633s

golang zip
size: 31820708 bytes / 31.820708 megabytes
time: 4331.0651ms / 4.3310651s
decompress: 2m0.8411212s

[nprail]

Due to the familiarity and simplicity of Node, we'll go with Node for both the API and CLI.