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socalgal2 6 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Oh My Zsh adds bloat

> I'm using starship which is a fast and minimal prompt packed into a single binary.

cargo install starship --locked

downloads 336 packages. So much for "minimal". cargo is the new npm

dwattttt 6 months ago | [–]

Some of those are the equivalent of a single C source file.

We wouldn't celebrate a C project for specifically holding down to say, 10 source files max. We'd celebrate it separating concerns well instead.

lazzlazzlazz 6 months ago | [–]

Right. A lot of people when they say "minimal" mean "simple looking at first glance", and it rarely is.

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