Good job
BTW any chance you would make MacOS version of this?
Show HN: Witr – Explain why a process is running on your Linux system
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Re: Show HN: Witr – Explain why a process is running on your Linux system
#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't use IDEs that require more time and effort investment than they save. You mileage may vary, though. Lots of software engineers love those time and effort tarpits.
I don't know what “tarpit” you're talking about. Every IDE I've used just worked out of the box, be it Visual Studio, Eclipse, or anything using the language server protocol. Having the ability to have things like method auto-completion, go-to-definition and symbol renaming is a net productivity gain from the minute you start using it and I couldn't imagine this being a controversial take in 2025…
> I don't know what “tarpit” you're talking about.
Really? You don't know software developers that would rather futz around with editor configs and tooling and libraries and etc, etc, all day every day instead of actually shipping the boring code?
You must be working in a different industry.
Re: Show HN: Witr – Explain why a process is running on your Linux system
#103Great tool! I was looking to convert my decades-old shell script into something a bit more modern and user-friendly, and lo and behold, this appeared right at the same time :) I'll just use yours instead. Well done! :)
Re: Show HN: Witr – Explain why a process is running on your Linux system
#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
I understand that installing via `curl` isn’t for everyone, but since this is the first release, I intentionally kept it simple. Now that the tool is gaining some traction, I can definitely plan proper packages for future releases. Thanks for your inputs.
Have a look at https://goreleaser.com/ , I've used it a bunch to automate releases of Go-based projects, locally and with GitHub Actions.
Thanks a lot for the input, I ended up using it.
Re: Show HN: Witr – Explain why a process is running on your Linux system
#105Sounds like something I could use, but installing a binary via `curl` doesn't sit right with me. Next problem you have is "explain how this thing was installed on my system" followed "is it up to date (including security patches). I hope they have deb package or snap some day.
Just to update, witr is currently available on brew and AUR.
deb, rpm and apk packages are also available in the release, and can be run directly via nix without installation.
Re: Show HN: Witr – Explain why a process is running on your Linux system
#106Good job BTW any chance you would make MacOS version of this?
Thank you, mac is already supported, only with the very first release it wasn't. You can install it via brew.
Re: Show HN: Witr – Explain why a process is running on your Linux system
#107Quick update: witr now supports Linux, macOS, Windows, and FreeBSD.