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.
And yet, you haven’t said it either
It’s basically short-form manpages, so it gives you a one-liner to describe what a CLI utility does, and then just lists a few concrete invocations to show off different use-cases for it.
One other big difference to manpages, though, is that the actual texts aren’t packaged by your distro, but rather downloaded from a server.