gurk-rs VS dust

I have an old Nokia N900 phone that runs a custom alpine linux-based rom (postmarketOS). Given the limited hardware resources, small screen size, and sliding keyboard, you'll be mostly running terminal applications on this phone (some GUI apps works but the experience is mixed). There are some unofficial terminal clients for Signal [0], and iirc hacker news works with the lynx terminal browser. The N900 might work for this scenario as a feature-minimal phone, but depends on your use cases.

[0] https://github.com/boxdot/gurk-rs

I recently found gurk, a Signal client for linux command line.

gurk-rs

I switched to gurk-rs on my devices and it's amazing, uses zero CPU and have zero impact on battery life. Can be used on desktop, mobile, can be accessed via SSH and tmux.

I want to finish the store encryption implementation in my CLI Signal messenger: https://github.com/boxdot/gurk-rs The initial implementation is already there, but I could not get back to it for several weeks already. First step: switch to sled, second step: plug encryption in between.

Try using dust https://github.com/bootandy/dust

Folks open to using gdu might like to try dust (6k stars), or even erdtree (1.4k stars) which is too recent to show up on lists like this and still a bit behind on stars. A lot of people seem to use starship (33k stars) though I'm personally oldschool on prompts. There are many other items on that list I'm not motivated to check.

The first thought I had was to use rayon for this. And looking at some prior art that does pretty much the exact same thing, it does indeed use rayon.

The dust CLI command (made with Rust) can do this too.

How does this compare to dust?

Happened to me this morning, something filled up my drive in minutes. I used dust[1] to look for large files while it was happening but knowing what was doing it would've been a big help.

[1] https://github.com/bootandy/dust

dust is also really nice.