Seriously! According to the time command in fish, cldr (my program) takes around 4-5 ms to print files, tldr takes 80-100ms. (PS, on my server, cldr actually takes less than 1 ms to fetch the file, while tldr takes closer to 150 ms. That’s 150 times faster!!!)
This started a couple days ago when a friend of mine alerted me to the fact that the official tldr repo now takes ai contributions for their pages (aka the cheat sheet files that are printed) and for the actual program code. She then showed me a repo called ethical-tldr which does not allow for the use of ai contributions in the pages or program code.
However, their even though their client doesn’t allow vibe coding, it is still written in Python, which itself takes ai contributions.
So, I decided to learn C from scratch and make my own tldr client that’s faster and better than theirs in *every way! Introducing cldr! I am especially proud of the list and search functionality because the interface is just gorgeous.
Note, ABSOLUTELY NO AI was used in the making of this, I learned and wrote everything on my own in just the past 3 days, I don’t think I even copied much or any code from websites.
*There’s still like two things I haven’t implemented that the official client does, but they’re very minor and I’d be willing to bet that 99% of you won’t know the difference.
C ftw, but seriously, calling an entire language(python) AI slop is going too far, though I will admit python has been responsible for slop code even before LLMs. My opinion on the matter is, efficient use of LLMs will usher a push to go back to hardware level languages like C, as all the benefits of python(except the awesome collection of libraries it has unfortunately accumulated) are kind of moot when you have a machine capable of outputting any boilerplate you ask of it; beyond that I do not trust LLMs to write logic unless its a well known and named algorithm like reversing an array or a linked list.