Leaves: Terminal Disk Usage Treemap Visualizer Built in Rust

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GUI disk analyzers are great for figuring out what's filling up your laptop/desktop drive. On containers or remote servers, the options are limited to purely text based

utilities (e.g. du) or list-centric TUIs (e.g. ncdu) which are usually limited

to viewing one directory at a time. I created leaves to fill that gap. Inspired by classic utilities like WinDirStat and KDirStat, it uses a

2-dimensional treemap^1 visualization to show the entire directory hierarchy

with proportionally sized rectangles. It's performant enough to handle millions of files, thanks to Rust and

multi-threading. However, block characters aren't as suited as pixels for

resolving a large number of items. Leaves can show file-type summaries per

directory or partition the top-level directories by extension, allowing you to

see not only where space is being used, but also how. For instance, I can see the largest chunk of my home directory is taken up by

uv caches for python and old Linux ISOs that I could easily re-download if

needed. Or in a particular container, +600MB is used by standard Rust

documentation and tutorials, and that it is the only location with HTML/JS files,

when only the libraries and build tools are needed (note to self: remember to

use the minimal profile next time). ^1: https://github.com/shundhammer/qdirstat/blob/master/doc/Tree...

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