alt Hacker NewsIs there a terminal AI assistant that doesn't have heaps of depenedancies and preferably no node? Claude and codex both require node. I'm a fan of the lightweight octofriend. But also node. I do not like installing node on systems that otherwise would not require it.
You can install codex without npm if you build it yourself, they have migrated to rust in June and npm is just a convenient install wrapper it seems.
Just `git clone [email protected]:openai/codex.git`, `cd codex-rs`, `cargo build --release` (If you have many cores and not much RAM, use `-j n`, where n is 1 to 4 to decrease RAM requirements)