Show HN: Claude Code rewritten as a bash script

(github.com)

49 points | by rpst a day ago ago

14 comments

  • eszed 21 hours ago ago

    How much of this was written using / by Claude? Not hating or snarking, BTW, just curious.

    Why (especially if the answer above is 'yes' / 'most') do we collectively think Anthropic built such a heavy interface?

    • rpst 21 hours ago ago

      all of it, and I think the answer is 1. feature creep 2. a lot of nice-to-haves. the TUI alone is responsible for a lot of bloat

      • WaterRun 8 hours ago ago

        Even that TUI is written in React.

  • kylex-ken 17 hours ago ago

    Claude code written for basic on your Apple II, because it'd be so retro.

    • rpst 17 hours ago ago

      I'd love to see it

  • 0xa2 a day ago ago

    I'd say websearch and webfetch tools are very important but missing here. Great direction though, I also wonder about how much bloat could be eliminated...

    • rpst 21 hours ago ago

      agree, I was more focused on bloat than pure utility

  • malicka 19 hours ago ago

    That sure is a lot of lines to avoid using getopts...

    • sudahtigabulan 14 minutes ago ago

      There seems to be only one possible option, --resume, and only one line is dedicated to handling it...

  • theidioticdev a day ago ago

    ok this is actually impressive, really. idk why no one commented yet

  • Imustaskforhelp a day ago ago

    I am now waiting for, Claude Code rewritten in assembly project :)

    (Maybe it can be a good project for anyone who works low-level)