Show HN: Tern – Native macOS SSH Client in Rust/GPUI (76 MB vs. Tabby's 580 MB)

On my day to day work i mostly use termius and tabby as multi project ssh tool with vault, somehow most of the features i use are just vault and password manager, and they are bulky, takes about 500mb ram for such simple program, and termius wants paid plan just to sync the vault. There are free tools but their ux is not at that level.

So i built my own simple ssh client with a little bit of my taste added, it has vault, password manager, repo sync, background gallery etc.

I have been working with rust on my hobby projects about 2-3 years and really got headaches from it, because its really hard to maintain features on rust project while fighting the borrow checker. Now with claude and some llm tools its very easy to build things, even some of the code written by agents is still slop but its fine to live with some slop. The main parts are modified from well written software.

Instead of cheap copying or writing from scratch, i copied from real world solutions with apache or mit license, well maintained and well written software that has almost no ai slop.

With some amateur level rust knowledge and some inspiration projects its really easy to build such low memory software, it only takes 85-125mb with wallpaper, mostly 80mb ram.

Here's the repo https://github.com/your-moon/tern any feedback and feature requests are welcome, i gladly answer