Comment by piskov

13 days ago

Thank god it’s not another React, Solid, Typescript, what have you, web abomination inside the terminal (claude code, opencode, I’m looking at you).

Bravo!

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codethief  13 days ago

> claude code, opencode, I’m looking at you

Could you elaborate? I mean, I get the usual criticism of web/Electron-based desktop applications (slow, includes a whole Chrome engine, non-native UI, …) but Claude Code isn't one of them?

  • piskov  13 days ago

    Search for twitter drama where Anthropic engineer says basically the following [1] and gets shamed by what AAA game developers are able to render at the same time.

    tldr; the ui you see in the terminal is react-based in claude code. As for opencode just see their repo on github.

    [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46706040

thehamkercat  13 days ago

That's where codex-cli shines (rust)

the startup time is crazy, you can start writing as soon as you hit the command

(I don't use codex, just noticed that it's crazy fast)

  • DrammBA  13 days ago

    Sadly the fast startup time is overshadowed by the slow response time of the codex agent

    • piskov  13 days ago

      I don't get it. Even in ChatGPT I always use Pro model with maxed-out thinking budget (selectors available only on web and windows).

      Let them cook as much as they can.

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