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Life is too short for a slow terminal

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Re: Life is too short for a slow terminal

#11

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> Most of the time the GUI experience is the same or better than terminal tools

I started to take your comment seriously until that line. You're avoiding leveling up and learning how to use the CLI. Whatever reason you are avoiding it for, understand that's what is at play here.

Re: Life is too short for a slow terminal

#19

I'm surprised people are still using nvm, considering it's impact on shell startup time. I can't recommend switching to mise highly enough: https://mise.en.dev/

I wasn't actually aware of the impact. I measured the zsh startup time locally (with mvn active and commented out) and it indeed makes a difference (.39s -> .08s). Not that I would have noticed that without measuring :) - yes I'm an old geezer.

Thank you for the recommendation, I might then also be able to ditch sdkman as well.

Re: Life is too short for a slow terminal

#20

Speaking of slow, what I absolutely cannot comprehend is why ghostty is so popular. Despite being written in Zig it is very slow and a total CPU and memory hog. Just sitting there idle it’s pulling a constant 40% of my CPU? No thanks!

> Just sitting there idle it’s pulling a constant 40% of my CPU? No thanks!

You need to figure out what is going on because that certainly isn't normal.

Literally seeing 0.0% on Linux

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