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Unix process&system query&format lib&multi-command CLI in Nim

7 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 0 stories, 7 comments · first 2021-10-27 · latest 2026-07-04

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  1. …system-wide (like vmstat) reports which leaves everything in your terminal scrollback buffer as in: https://github.com/c-blake/procs { written in the uncommonly efficient, expressive Nim programming language }.
    comment by cb321 · 2026-07-04 · in Explanation of everything you can see in htop/top on Linux (2019)
  2. …at least one ancient 1990s C project be more flexible and much faster in Nim at like 6% the LOC ( https://github.com/c-blake/procs for the curious).
    comment by cb321 · 2025-10-31 · in Nim 2.2.6
  3. …in a nicer fashion with traditionally named set theoretic operators like intersection, union, etc. https://github.com/c-blake/procs makes a lot of use of set[enum] to do its dependency analysis of what Linux /proc files to load and what…
    comment by cb321 · 2025-09-01 · in A review of Nim 2: The good and bad with example code
  4. …an alternative that might interest some is a scrolling terminal kind of log report out of the Nim https://github.com/c-blake/procs . pd -pBHd1 -f "%N %R %< %> %J %a" $(pf firefox) or launch the program with `prog &` and use the shell `$!`…
    comment by cb321 · 2023-09-27 · in Exploring Linux command-line space time
  5. …toolkits" with some default configs to get people going, I think https://github.com/c-blake/lc and https://github.com/c-blake/procs are nicer than Rust alternatives. I mention these since you seem interested in such tools.
    comment by cb321 · 2023-06-27 · in Ask HN: Why did Nim not catch on like Rust did?
  6. Since `ps` is featuring prominently here, folks might be interested in https://github.com/c-blake/procs which is a color ps (Linux-only right now). It has a more canonical CLI since it is based upon the Nim CLI generator…
    comment by cb321 · 2022-05-07 · in Unix command line conventions over time
  7. …packing as much information as possible into small real estate (like cell phone terminal screens). https://github.com/c-blake/procs does include some "indentation" oriented tree viewing, though, and uses much of the same kind of…
    comment by cb321 · 2021-10-27 · in Exa: An alternative to Ls