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z.lua
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Cdpath: Easily Navigate Directories in the Terminal
https://github.com/skywind3000/z.lua is quite nice and has more features, e.g. fzf integration and an interactive mode.
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What terminal apps are you using?
Then install: - z.lua - better cd - exa - better ls - trash - rm deletes completely - trash moves files to trash, so you can recover them - massren - absolutely the best file/folder renamer (especially for devs) - tldr - better than man
- Z.lua: A new CD command that helps you navigate faster by learning your habits
- A statically typed scripting language that transpiles to Posix sh
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Which file manager do you use and why?
wget https://github.com/skywind3000/z.lua/raw/master/ranger_zlua.pyi && chmod +x ~/.config/ranger/plugins/ranger_zlua.py
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Better version of cd?
z.lua
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6 Command Line Tools for Productive Programmers
I personally use z.lua, but if you're a Rust fan there's also zoxide. Both are multi-platform and highly configurable.
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Is there something like z available for git?
With z you can CD into a directory like ~/Documents/Foo/Bar/Baz by executing z baz.
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What is your cd system?
I used to keep some directory bookmarks with apparix, but nowadays I just use z.lua.
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A new zsh plugin for finding z abbreviations
Currently zabb mainly supports the zoxide implementation of z. It works ok with z.lua, fasd and z, but may not find the shortest abbreviations for those. It may work for other implementations if they support the z -e command. I welcome PRs to expand zabb to other implementations.
v
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V Language Review (2023)
Their site is clearly showing the language is in beta. The V documentation also states that autofree is WIP, and to use the GC instead. This isn't a corporate created language, but looks to be a true volunteer open source effort from people around the world.
Their community, in comparison to others, even has their discussions open and open threads for criticism[1]. These
[1]https://github.com/vlang/v/discussions/7610
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Towards memory safety with ownership checks for C
V also has this https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/master/doc/docs.md#embed_fil...
- Vlang Release v0.4.4
- Vox: Upcoming open-source browser engine in V
- Building a web blog in V & SQLite
- bultin_write_buf_to_fd_should_use_c_write
- The V Machine Learning Roadmap and Ecosystem
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Show HN: A new stdlib for Golang focusing on platform native support
Goroutines was the selling point for me until they decided to introduce telemetry in their toolchain; that was what forced me to stop using Golang as a whole.
About GC, I would say: if you implement C++'s RAII mechanism to replace garbage collection, then I believe this project will have a bright future.
My final question is the following: how `pcz` compares to V language, from a syntax's perspective [1]?
[1] https://github.com/vlang/v
- Hopefully, the V developers will establish a relationship with Microsoft.
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The V Programming Language 0.4
V has the right to exist, have its supporters, and do things its own way. The creator and developers of V, from what I have seen, has always responded well to constructive criticism. Their language has discussions opened at their GitHub, unlike those for various other languages. They even have a thread for what people don't like and want improved about the language[1], again, something many other languages don't have.
A lot of what was going on initially, was coming from obvious competitors, to include being uncivil, inflammatory, and insulting. The initial "criticism" was not so much that, but false accusations of the language being a scam, vaporware, fraud, or didn't really exist. To include attacks and jealousy about its funding and having supporters. This was not any kind of "valid" criticism, that the creator or contributors of the language could reason about.
The "criticism" never died down, but rather after V was open-sourced and established itself on GitHub. The initial series of false accusations could not stand nor could the support it was getting be stopped. So, the rhetoric and targets shifted to whatever could be found to go after on the newly released alpha version of the language and its new website. In that new mix of what was being thrown at it, there were indeed some very valid criticisms, as can be found with any new language.
Constructive and valid criticism, is not the same as insults, trolling, misinformation, rivalry, or false accusations. There is clearly a difference. It's disingenuous to pretend something from one group is the same as the other, or that the intent behind what is being done is not different.
[1] https://github.com/vlang/v/discussions/7610
What are some alternatives?
zoxide - A smarter cd command. Supports all major shells.
zig - General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.
zsh-z - Jump quickly to directories that you have visited "frecently." A native Zsh port of z.sh with added features.
go - The Go programming language
zinit - Flexible and fast Zsh plugin manager with clean fpath, reports, completion management, Turbo, annexes, services, packages.
Odin - Odin Programming Language
z - z - jump around
Nim - Nim is a statically typed compiled systems programming language. It combines successful concepts from mature languages like Python, Ada and Modula. Its design focuses on efficiency, expressiveness, and elegance (in that order of priority).
vifm - Vifm is a file manager with curses interface, which provides Vim-like environment for managing objects within file systems, extended with some useful ideas from mutt.
sokol - minimal cross-platform standalone C headers
doublecmd - Double Commander is a free cross platform open source file manager with two panels side by side.
hn-search - Hacker News Search