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> "Tere" means "hello" in Estonian. It also feels nice to type. I really thought it was initially a typo on "tree" (the tool's purpose is to navigate the folder tree) that the author decided to keep.
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It’s a funny thing I’ve noticed about scripting languages: they’re generally easier to get going with yourself, but they’re horrible for distribution/deployment, and if you have to integrate code written in other languages (even C libraries with Python bindings, or similar—things like wxWidgets or GTK), that rapidly escalates to a nightmare . Meanwhile, ahead-of-time compiled languages like Rust and Go are simply a b…
There are several working options for packaging Python apps, some existing for twenty years. Sure, while a little more complicated than compiling a static executable, it is hardly a "nightmare." It's basically writing a config file, and adding another stanza to a Makefile or modern equivalent. Reminds me of the idea regularly pushed here that you need a virtualenv even for thirty-line scripts. I read these kind of ta…
Granted, a few of these things apply to Rust stuff as well (e.g. resources and manifests can’t quite be done out of the box without extra tools), but most of them are inapplicable, and the remainder tend to have better solutions than I observed in Python-land. And a lot of the pain that I’m describing of the Python stuff isn’t that it’s hard to do anything, but more that I’ve found it all just exceptionally error prone and unreliable.
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Well, that's Rust for you. They somehow think that having a boatload of dependencies with nondescript names (smawk, parking_lot_core, serde, clap - I feel like I'm having a stroke) is a feature. I'm not even joking.
The aggressive replies on this thread. holy s**t. That's what I mean when I say Rust community is toxic here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32105449
One of my pet peeves is CLI newbies who always have the need to cd into some directory before running a command. I learnt pretty early on that this was stupid. Just run your command from the repo root or $HOME.
A Small bit of trivia: tere means hi in Estonian.
I'm going to be a dick here, because someone will say it anyways, but how is this different from VIM's directory browser? Essentially the same UI. I do think your program does add some features not found in VIM.
Not everyone uses Vim. Also netrw is a bit of a mess; I once found a bug and thought "I'll write a patch". After five minutes of browsing through the code ( [insert Eddie Murphy meme] ): "yeah, never mind".