2,351 stars · MIT · v0.9 on GitHub, 0.9.0 on crates.io (2026-01-23) · Track this in Scout
Finds the rebuildable dependency and build folders that old projects leave behind across twenty-odd ecosystems, and shows the list before deleting anything.
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- voidcosmos/npkill
Does the same job for JavaScript alone, listing every node_modules folder with its size, which is tidier for a machine that only holds JavaScript work and useless for anything else.
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The Rust-only equivalent, and more precise there because it can delete only build output older than a given date, but its own page states that the project is currently unmaintained and looking for a maintainer.
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Byron/dua-cliEdition 36 covered this: it shows what filled a disk and can delete anything at all, which is more powerful and much less safe, because it has no idea which folders are rebuildable.
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