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• By IE6 2022-03-3121:004 reply

  Some may find this interesting: https://github.com/ariccio/altWinDirStat/issues/4

  By Arainach 2022-04-017:42

  The author's views on code seem rather opinionated in general. Their thoughts on internationalization in particular go against all best practices in the pursuit of clean code dogma: https://github.com/ariccio/altWinDirStat/tree/master/WinDirS...

  I'm amused that the author rants about the importance of being able to easily analyze code and then wants to produce (presumably) a different binary per language to analyze all over.

  Their commit messages are also rather colorful. This is an interesting project, but seemingly not someone I'd enjoy working with.

  By humbleharbinger 2022-04-012:291 reply

  A fun read indeed. I wonder about the insistence on keeping it less than 20k loc?

  Is that the developer basically saying "this problem can and should be solved in less than 20k lines?"

  By Cthulhu_ 2022-04-018:361 reply

  Looks like it; the author also says he sticks to certain paradigms like an indentation style I've not seen in the wild before and making as many things as possible 'const'.

  I don't mind, I can respect people having Strong Opinions, it's an improvement over having too weak opinions which lead to inconsistencies in a codebase.

  By chris37879 2022-04-0113:48

  I'm guilty of the const / final thing... it really does help in the language I use for work all the time, but that's because its compiler and analyzer are built around using those hints to do static analysis in my editor.

  By zombittack 2022-04-0110:31

  fwiw, we went from in-memory to sqlite and had massive performance gains for a language model trie we were working with in an app. Best part: cross-platform! I just find this so odd, the gall of the forker who literally started with someone else's code then, after asking about a collab, told them "sorry, I think better." So weird. Ah well, 7 years old, I'm sure they've both gotten over it.

  By xeromal 2022-03-3122:45

  Thanks for sharing! What a fun read!

• By chaxor 2022-03-3121:264 reply

  I always liked diskonaut, since I can use it anywhere (remote computer ssh is mostly where I live). https://github.com/imsnif/diskonaut

  It's in Rust, which I don't code, but it is if anyone cares about such things.

  It works fast, is easy to use, and looks pretty.

  By dijit 2022-03-3122:221 reply

  I’m going to guess that AltWinDirStat is much faster as the readme references several windows specific performance improvements.

  Commenting though to thank you for bringing Diskonaught into my life.

  FWIW I have been using ncdu for this purpose for many years, I like it, but diskonaught looks like a solid improvement.

  By R0b0t1 2022-03-3123:51

  Where's the improvements list? I can't see it.

  By bravetraveler 2022-03-3122:27

  I like it, reminds me a lot of something I used to use with Windows -- SpaceSniffer

  This might get me to finally stop writing so many loops, but getting this on servers at work might be questionable :D

  By julianh95 2022-03-3123:27

  How are you using it over SSH? :)

  By alanbernstein 2022-04-011:32

  Looks great, thanks for sharing.

• By smusamashah 2022-04-016:341 reply

  Old SpaceMonger[0] and now SpaceSniffer[1] present a much better visualization of folders while also letting you adjust the granularity of how deep you want to see through.

  [0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20121126062443/http://www.sixty-...

  [1]: http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/index.html

  By aquir 2022-04-0117:44

  I second SpaceSniffer...it's not actively developed any more :(