Terse is a minimalistic, lightweight and direct terminal search engine. It is designed to give you answers to programming questions directly in the terminal as quick and bloat-free as possible
When you want to look up something (as you often will), going on the Web to look it up requires a massive amount of extra noise.
You open your browser, type in your question, and load up a whole react-based web page with design and animation and ads and cookies and all this extra fluff when what you really want is just the text that tells you what to do. And you'll often be looking things up multiple times a minute, and the process begins again.
some will even ask a bot, and set in motion billions of tensor operations in a noisy datacenter to generate each individual word of how to center a div for the ten thousandth time because you can't bother to remember.
Terse gets rid of all this bloat. You ask a question, you get an answer, right in your terminal. Simple as that. Everything's plain-text, small, and direct, written by developers like you.
Written in the Rust language, with no rendering of HTML, no background processes running, nothing but plain-text answers to your plain-text questions
There's no ads, no banners asking you to donate, no tabs everywhere trying to get you to click, no extra fluff obscuring the actual answer, no getting distracted and hopping on social media, either. Just direct flow between you and the answers you need.
No worrying about efficiency, bandwidth, cost or memory; Terse is simple, efficient, and more importantly, enough.
No part of Terse or Terse-server was written, designed, or influenced in any way by AI. Terse is 100% human-made