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by bean469 94 days ago
Surprised that there's no discussion about the prevalence of using TypeScript for developing these CLI agent harnesses. To me it seems concerning that such CLI programs are so chunky and commonly have to use over 1GB of RAM. Might be boomer-talk, but I am used to CLI apps being extremely lightweight and fast (think Total Commander, which has a UI, but is still very lightweight and responsive)

I understand that part of the reason is because many of these harnesses are vibe-coded, so plenty is lost in terms of optimization. And, well, because LLMs code best in TypeScript