Hey HN, my open source drive cleaner for devs recently hit a major milestone, now supporting 20 different kinds of software projects.<p>It handles typical software projects like Cargo (Rust) and Node (JS) to things like Jupyter Notebook (Python) to even game engines like Unreal (C++).<p>Here's an example run from my pc earlier:<p><pre><code> > kondo ~/code
/Users/choc/code/driving Cargo project (4 weeks ago)
└─ target (7.6GiB)
delete above artifact directories? ([y]es, [n]o, [a]ll, [q]uit): y
/Users/choc/code/aetherift-website Node project (2 months ago)
└─ node_modules (310.9MiB)
delete above artifact directories? ([y]es, [n]o, [a]ll, [q]uit): y
Projects cleaned: 2, Bytes deleted: 7.91GiB
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It works by recursively searching in the given path(s) looking for identifiers of known projects. Usually these are specifically named configuration files, for example package.json for JS and Cargo.toml for Rust.<p>Once a project is identified it is presented to the user with how much space could be reclaimed by deleting the "build artifacts", and given the option to do so.<p>Build artifacts are any files that can be trivially regenerated from the rest of the project. In a JS project it would be node_modules, in Zig it would be zig-cache, etc. For many types of software projects the artifacts are often 99% of the size, dramatically bloating the size of the directory.<p>It's most useful when you want to archive/backup repositories without manually clearing all their artifacts, or if you're just running low on disk space because you tried a few too many JS libraries that somehow occupy 500MB in dependencies...<p>Kondo was my Rust learning project during some career downtime in 2020. It was a very practical transition from a bash script, to evolving a CLI interface, and eventually a GUI. I also experienced adding multi-threading to an existing project and I have to say I found it easier than expected. All in all I found Rust a pleasant and productive language to code in.<p>You can install kondo via the usual ways, `brew install kondo`, `pacman -S kondo`, building locally or even from your system package manager (though it may be an older version).<p>I'm open to any feedback, suggestions, and contributions. I have a refactor in the works to remove a few edge cases so I'm curious to hear from people who it doesn't currently suit.<p>Hope you find it useful
- Trent