Well, the name came out of nowhere (sorry!). As for comparison with ruby, all I can say is figurine is a single binary, whereas ruby's lolcat requires ruby's VM.
There are a couple of benchmarks and you can run them with:
$ go test -bench=.
I love this sort of thing. Yes, as remarked by probably everyone here over the age of 40, we have had loads of terminal shiny stuff for decades. However, here we see the tradition continue at least one or two human generations later and in a modern programming language.
It's funny that despite the fact that GUIs with mice, menus and things have been around for a bloody long time: you can't beat a terminal prompt for many tasks. Mind you my terminals these days looks rather better than the twinax connected beasts of yesteryear that I looked after. I don't remember transparency options on those.
Have a look at https://github.com/nojhan/liquidprompt for more eye-candy for your prompt - it does look rather good and I've been using it on one machine for at least a year with no snags. However that project may be needing an active developer judging by the last commit and Issues.
Wow, it is interesting how this project ties together the devops environment with the user interface. I feel this is higly domain dependent: As soon as I install this on my cluster system where http://modules.sourceforge.net/ is commonly used, it doesn't help me any more. Same with my home brewn environment based build system for my C++ project. Obviously, the spaceship-prompt needs support to be built for such environments.
This does not reduce the enormous efforts of the author to include all the different ecosystems, thought.
Just added a flag (-v) to print out the font. Please let me know which font is broken and I will remove it. Thanks.
You can also choose a specific font if you want.
