Bartib

Judgement

What it is

Developer tool

What it does

A command-line time tracker that logs activities to a plain-text file and produces flexible reports.

Adopt it when

You want terminal time tracking with data you can read and edit by hand.

Watch out

Quiet since March 2026; small feature set.

Ready for

Usable

Runs as

Command line

Built with

Rust

How established

Established: started 5 years ago, latest release v1.1.0.

What the license allows

Use inside your business is unrestricted, but anything you distribute that includes it must be released under the same license.

Judged on 2026-11-03 from the project's README and GitHub data. The license and age lines are worked out directly.

Built from

Follow it down: Bartib → Rust → runs on a microchip

How compilers were built, back to punched paper tape

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