Small programs

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date: 2020-10-29 20:34:44

categories: tools

firstPublishDate: 2020-10-29 20:34:44

I prefer to use lightweight programs rather than programs taking lots of resources. The programs heavy on resources today (web browsers, webapps, electron apps) are worse than the native apps in features.

I want to keep the resources for my data or my processing, for example:

developing hash table using few GB of data

running virtual machines

compiling code in parallel

keep using my devices for at least 10 years

Small programs are good because they:

use few resources

are stable

run in terminals and can be run from anywhere

are high performance

It is best when the programs are coded in C because it makes them lightweight and high performance.

Some examples of small programs I use:

w3m: terminal web browser

st: suckless terminal

coreutils ls, find, cat, less, grep,...

ssh, scp

rsync

mutt: email client

mc, ranger: directory navigators

vim: text editor

gdb: debugger

slrn: newsgroup reader

hashtags: #smallapps

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