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piefed.social

Proton Drive CLI is here, available for Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Whoooooooo!

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Because who the hell uses CLI tools on Windows and MacOS :D

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lemmy.world
  • There's a new proton drive CLI
  • That's good
  • The CLI is implemented in TypeScript
  • That's bad
  • It is available on Linux
  • That's good
  • It pulls in a massive node_modules directory
  • ...
  • That's bad
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Mioreply

You must be kidding. The CLI is far from a web browser and there is no need to running TypeScript at all for this task. Build it in Go, Rust or Zig that is more suitable for this task.

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lemmy.today

Um... Disappointing. Why does it have to be CLI? It's good for some things, not great at others.

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pmkreply

Getting a CLI version done first is kind of a natural step forward, with GUI and desktop integration to follow next.

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artyomreply
piefed.social

Getting the basic functionality working is usually an early step. Then later you build a GUI. They did the same with Proton VPN.

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I have their CLI VPN client on my laptop under LMDE7. Wrote two zsh scripts to handle connection/disconnection automatically depending on my wifi connection. Very handy.

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