Technology/Gopher Bitreich, (sdf.org), 01/23/2019
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Bitreich[1] told me that their gopher hole is:
Best viewed using:
[38] sacc/
[39] clic/
Of course, I was in VF-1, so I fired up sacc and clic, in
which Bitreich told me:
| Best viewed using:
Dir + sacc
Dir + clic
and:
| Best viewed using:
38 | sacc
39 | clic
in each client, respectively. I've tried both clients
before. They are written in C and Lisp. They work and are
clean. Clic has color, sacc does not (at least, by default.)
Sacc has 1992 linebreaks in the .c files, clicc has 812
linebreaks in the .lisp files, and my version of VF-1 has
1025 linebreaks in the .py file.
Also:
pidof sacc | xargs ps -o rss,sz,vsz
RSS SZ VSZ
2584 6311 25244
pidof clic | xargs ps -o rss,sz,vsz
RSS SZ VSZ
49096 31384 125536
pidof python3 | xargs ps -o rss,sz,vsz
RSS SZ VSZ
18384 19215 76860
Yeah, well, that's just some information, it doesn't answer
the question of "best viewed using." In all three clients,
no information was missing, no links had issues functioning.
Both clic and sacc honored my $PAGER environment variable
(VF-1 did not.)
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Well, that was fun, but it's missing data for lynx and umn's
gopher client "gopher." They told me (respectively):
Best viewed using:
(DIR) sacc
(DIR) clic
and:
Best viewed using:
[71] sacc/
[72] clic/
Not sure about lynx, but umn gopher has over 12k lines
between the .c and .h files. And:
pidof lynx | xargs ps -o rss,sz,vsz
RSS SZ VSZ
10724 15961 63844
pidof gopher | xargs ps -o rss,sz,vsz
RSS SZ VSZ
2652 4948 19792
Lynx worked well, but UMN gopher has it's issues.
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CONCLUSION:
It's a tie between VF-1 and clic, with lynx in 2nd place,
sacc in 3rd, and umn's gopher client in 4th. VF-1 and clic
had color (which makes visual distinction and navigation
much easier and faster,) lynx had color but a clunky
arrow-driven interface, sacc was both colorless and relied
on arrow (or hjkl) driven, and umn gopher is just old and
broken. None of them uses enough memory to matter, except on
constrained systems.
For now, I'll stick with VF-1, and I'm sure I'll be able to
reap the full benefits of bitreich.org... even if I'm not
living by their creeds (sorry.)
HONORABLE MENTION:
We didn't look at cgo and stubb, both of which would have
competed nicely here. I'm sure there are a half-dozen or so
other clients that might have been tried out in this space
as well.
[1]
gopher://bitreich.org:70/1
