Someone's gotta write rdu.
OP’s link has a list at the bottom with alternatives (that in itself is very cool). It lists both gdu and a Rust alternative called dua.
See also broot, dust, and pdu for Rust alternatives.
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you're probably more likely to see jsdu first and then I'll have my buddy explaining to me why it's actually faster
Re:Ncdu – NCurses Disk Usage
by thatwasunusual on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @12:26PM
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Still only pretty fast, though.
https://github.com/dundee/gdu