Post #2198741
2025-12-16 13:59 UTC
@gumnos@mastodon.bsd.cafe @evgandr@mastodon.bsd.cafe @thedaemon @vermaden@bsd.network @millie@infosec.exchange
DUDE, I remember the first time I tried a *top-style utility written in node.js, and the utility itself was hogging like 5-10% of a CPU the whole time.
What the flip is even the point of that?
...
And I'm sure Rust is a wonderful language with tons of advantages, but the build process could blow up Alderaan all by itself. :BlobCatCoolio: :BlobFoxDealWithIt:
I do use some Python-based stuff happily, though. sncli (TUI for SimpleNote) and edir (manage files/dirs in $EDITOR) are pretty fly.
Oh, and of course, toot for tooting and doing things like looking up fedi threads and stats on users, yt-dlp, obviously, and rokucli for controlling my TV from my laptop.
Their dependencies aren't anywhere near as labyrinthine as JS or Rust, and pipx does a very reasonable job of managing them.
Replies (1)
-
@gumnos@mastodon.bsd.cafe 2025-12-16 14:19
@rl_dane@polymaths.social Yeah, there was some whole-system top-like utility that caught my eye a while back (I think it might have been "glances", but could be mistaken and it was something similar), but when I went to install it, the package manager informed me of its hundreds of MB of dependencies for something that could likely have instead been a single C/Go/Rust binary. I opted to answer "No, don't bother proceeding" 🤷