rua
tldr
rua | tldr | |
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4 | 262 | |
420 | 48,406 | |
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6.7 | 10.0 | |
4 months ago | 7 days ago | |
Rust | Markdown | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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rua
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Node.js packages don't deserve your trust
> While I find projects in those other languages to also have too many dependencies, it's no where near what happens in JS apps. I'm thinking of projects I've recently worked on in Rust, PHP, and Java.
My experience with these new languages is such that this feels a bit unfair. It's like insisting that a disaster with 1000 fatalities is "much worse" than one with "only". It's ... true ... I guess, but there's something uncomfortable about making the comparison. Something has gone badly wrong if the comparison even needs to happen in the first place.
What I'm getting at is that e.g. Rust has an enormous problem in this area. It's not uncommon for me to see Node projects with over a thousand transitive dependencies, but on the other hand, I very frequently see Rust projects with over a hundred. And the Node projects tend to be more complicated than the Rust ones; they do more.
Take the last Rust program I tried to use, tealdeer. [1] If you don't know, tldr is a project that provides alternative simplified man pages for commonly used programs that consist entirely of easy to understand examples for the program. [2] What a tldr client needs to do is simply to check a local cache for each lookup, and if necessary update the cache online. It's a trivial problem that can be, and has been! [3], solved in a few hundred lines of shell (if you're being extremely verbose). How many recursive dependencies would you guess tealdeer uses? Depends on how you count, of course, but as of today the answer is ~133 deduplicated dependencies! For a program that's a glorified wrapper around curl!
Or another Rust program I looked at recently, rua [4]. In Arch Linux, the AUR is a repository of user maintained scripts for building and installing software as native Arch packages. Official tools for the building and installing software already exist for Arch, but it is common for users to use a wrapper around these tools that makes fetching and updating the software from the AUR easier. It's a relatively simple task that (once again) can be done with shell scripts. rua is such a wrapper. As of today it uses 137 deduplicated dependencies!
These Rust programs are simple terminal tools to do tasks that are almost trivial in nature. And yet they require hundreds of constantly updating dependencies! The situation may well be better than what you'll find for Node, but it's undeniably disastrous compared to either simpler languages without a built in package manager (like C) or more complicated batteries-included languages where best practices continue to prevail (like Python).
[1] https://github.com/dbrgn/tealdeer
[2] https://tldr.sh/
[3] https://github.com/raylee/tldr-sh-client/blob/main/tldr
[4] https://github.com/vn971/rua
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Paru vs Yay vs Other (please specify in comments)
I gotta dig into rua too, seems cool!
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Is there an AUR helper that can automatically apply custom patches?
Rua can do local patches (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AUR_helper#Comparison_tables)
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5 reasons why I love coding on Linux
https://github.com/vn971/rua#install-the-aur-way
tldr
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Ask HN: Is there a GUI for bash shell?
Maybe this already helps: https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr
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Try / Ripgrep in Y Minutes
A bit of an aside, but I really like "guides to things we otherwise take for granted". So few man pages are built around example use cases, but those are often what make the case for a tool!
A similar spirit to projects like https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr/ , but this has a lot more useful detail.
The ripgrep author has a blog post on performance and benchmarking that is an interesting read in itself: https://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep/
- Serving my blog posts as Linux manual pages
- Tldr: Simplified and community-driven man pages
- Tell HN: My Favorite Tools
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Should you add screenshots to documentation?
Looks like bro pages is archived and they recommend https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr or https://github.com/cheat/cheat
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Have i made my own linux distro? ^_^
a very excellent tool to grab is TLDR https://tldr.sh/
- fixedIt
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Day 2 - Basic navigation
And that's why tldr is such a powerful tool! You can easily install it with sudo apt install tldr or follow this demo.
- Tldr Pages
What are some alternatives?
yay - Yet another Yogurt - An AUR Helper written in Go
cheat - cheat allows you to create and view interactive cheatsheets on the command-line. It was designed to help remind *nix system administrators of options for commands that they use frequently, but not frequently enough to remember.
paru - Feature packed AUR helper
tealdeer - A very fast implementation of tldr in Rust.
dotter - A dotfile manager and templater written in rust 🦀
cheat.sh - the only cheat sheet you need
alma - Create Arch Linux based bootable USB drives
zsh-autosuggestions - Fish-like autosuggestions for zsh
customizepkg - A tool for Arch Linux package manager pacman to modify PKGBUILD automatically
navi - An interactive cheatsheet tool for the command-line
arch-audit - A utility like pkg-audit for Arch Linux. Based on Arch Security Team data.
fish-shell - The user-friendly command line shell.