Ncdu 2: Less hungry and more Ziggy

Re:Ncdu 2: Less hungry and more Ziggy by formerly_proven on Sunday July 25, 2021 @12:29PM (#27950457)

D vs Zig vs Go for practical, pragmatic development of possibly-cross-platform tools? Fight.

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Re:Ncdu 2: Less hungry and more Ziggy by smoldesu on Sunday July 25, 2021 @01:04PM (#27950859)

I don't like any of those languages very much, but Zig seems perfectly fine for this sort of stuff. From the very beginning, I've seen people say that Zig should be used to offer easy, human-readable rewrites of basic C utilities without sacrificing execution speed. Meanwhile, I think Go would be much too heavy for a program like this, and D seems to be a little out of it's depths in this conversation.

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Re:Ncdu 2: Less hungry and more Ziggy by nahuel0x on Sunday July 25, 2021 @02:06PM (#27951423)

I'm not sure if it's really a problem for ncdu use case, but in Golang all the file I/O operations consume threads (in contrast with network ones), so is not easy to parallelize them: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/6817

Btw, you forgot Rust :)

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Re:Ncdu 2: Less hungry and more Ziggy by drran on Sunday July 25, 2021 @03:11PM (#27951999)

In Rust, it's easy: https://github.com/bootandy/dust/blob/master/src/dir_walker....

(Dust is "du + rust").

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Re:Ncdu 2: Less hungry and more Ziggy by dnautics on Sunday July 25, 2021 @02:21PM (#27951552)

CLIs: For now, go. In 3 years? Zig.

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Re:Ncdu 2: Less hungry and more Ziggy by goodpoint on Sunday July 25, 2021 @05:07PM (#27952925)

Nim

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Re:Ncdu 2: Less hungry and more Ziggy by qmmmur on Sunday July 25, 2021 @01:45PM (#27951268)

Nim

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Re:Ncdu 2: Less hungry and more Ziggy by sausage_dog on Monday July 26, 2021 @08:09AM (#27958435)

Nim!

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