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dc_giant commented on Toad is a unified experience for AI in the terminal   willmcgugan.github.io/toa... · Posted by u/nikolatt
willm · 2 days ago
It is quite literally instantaneous on my 5 year old laptop. Whatever you are seeing isn't due to the choice of Python.
dc_giant · 2 days ago
Maybe it's something on my setup then. I notice some delay even though it's by no means huge but noticable. For me these things add up, another example is pane resizing in tmux. I like things snappy, but it's kind of an OCD thing I guess.
dc_giant commented on Toad is a unified experience for AI in the terminal   willmcgugan.github.io/toa... · Posted by u/nikolatt
Hasnep · 2 days ago
The author is also the creator of the textual Python library for creating TUIs. The performance benefits of Rust don't seem very useful in a tool where you spend a few seconds typing in a prompt and then 90% of your time is spent waiting. As long as the UI is responsive when typing there wouldn't be much of a difference.
dc_giant · 2 days ago
Didn’t know that. Good reason then of course. But I do notice these sort of differences. Codex feels way better than Claude code to me for example.

I tried Toad and to me it feels ridiculously slow and laggy. Switching between input and output (ALT+up/down) for example just lags, I can notice the transition. The whole UI lags. It's no wonder, it's python. Simply the wrong language for this, sorry.

dc_giant commented on Toad is a unified experience for AI in the terminal   willmcgugan.github.io/toa... · Posted by u/nikolatt
NSPG911 · 2 days ago
The creator of Toad, made a TUI framework in Python (Textual). What is so special about Rust, aside from it being blazingly fast and compiled, that you want from it?
dc_giant · 2 days ago
Safety, performance, avoiding python dependency hell.

I tried Toad and to me it feels ridiculously slow and laggy. Switching between input and output (ALT+up/down) for example just lags, I can notice the transition. The whole UI lags. It's no wonder, it's python. Simply the wrong language for this, sorry.

dc_giant commented on Toad is a unified experience for AI in the terminal   willmcgugan.github.io/toa... · Posted by u/nikolatt
willm · 3 days ago
Hi. Will McGugan here. I built Toad. Ask me anything.
dc_giant · 2 days ago
Cool idea but why python?! Rust please and I’m all ears.

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dc_giant commented on Sunsetting Supermaven   supermaven.com/blog/sunse... · Posted by u/vednig
dc_giant · a month ago
Hmmm they did charge my CC two days ago on 22nd though…
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