[latexr]

Yeah, but then I’d have to be working with Python (which I don’t enjoy) and be pulling in dependencies (which I avoid) to have a custom system with moving parts (Python interpreter, library, script) (which I don’t want).

A rust CLI would make a lot of sense here. Single binary.

[sorenjan]

  > uvx --with pillow --with okmain python -c "from PIL import Image; import okmain; print(okmain.colors(Image.open('bluemarble.jpg')))"
  [RGB(r=79, g=87, b=120), RGB(r=27, g=33, b=66), RGB(r=152, g=155, b=175), RGB(r=0, g=0, b=0)]

It would make sense to add an entrypoint in the pyproject.toml so you can use uvx okmain directly.

[blipvert]

This sounds like a job for <ta-ta-ta-taaaa> contrib-directory-man!

[latexr]

So your solution to “I’d be interested in having a small ready-made tool and try this out” is “spend a bunch of time to get acquainted with the code base of something you may not even like, create a separate tool, and submit it without even knowing if it’ll be accepted”?

That’s like having someone looking at a display of ice cream in a supermarket saying “I’d be interested in trying a few samples before committing” and then getting a reply like “here are the recipes for all the ice creams, you can try to make them at home and taste them for yourself”.

I know I could theoretically spend my weekend working on a CLI tool for this or making ice cream. Every developer knows that, there’s no reason to point that out except snark. But you know who might do it even faster and better and perhaps even enjoy it? The author.

Look, the maintainer owes me nothing. I owe them nothing. This project has been shared to HN by the author and I’m making a simple, sensible, and sensical suggestion for something which I would like to see and believe would be an improvement overall, and I explained why. The author is free to agree or disagree, reply or ignore. Every one of those options is fine.

[cvwright]

You’re not wrong, but you probably could have built the thing with Claude in the time it took you to write this comment.

[blipvert]

You could likely have written that tool in the time that it took to write that comment.

If it would be useful to you, and to others, then why not?

And if it is not accepted then publish it yourself. Stop your whining.

[latexr]

I have explained why up the thread. I gave three reasons. Why are you feeling the need to be unnecessarily combative to a stranger on the internet? The author already said they think it’s a good idea and that they’ll work on it over the weekend, you’re being rude over nothing.

[blipvert]

Someone gave you a constructive suggestion.

> (which I don’t enjoy) > (which I avoid) > (which I don’t want)

You are quite the negative Nelly.

[blipvert]

> The author already said they think it’s a good idea and that they’ll work on it over the weekend

Did you even say “thank you”?

[latexr]

Am I talking to the secret HN account of JD Vance right now?

I upvoted. Comments saying just thank you aren’t the norm for HN. No need to furiously send multiple replies to the same comment, either. There’s a link to the guidelines at the bottom if you need a refresher.