irona — Reclaim your disk. Clean your workspace.
Description: irona is a Rust TUI CLI tool that scans your workspace for build artifacts — Rust, Node.js, C#, Python, Go, PHP, Ruby, Swift, Gradle, Maven, Elm, Dart, Haskell, and .NET Paket/NuGet — and lets you delete them interactively.

Rust TUI · build artifact cleaner · named after Richie Rich's robot maid

# irona

Reclaim your disk.
Clean your workspace.

scanning ~/projects 14 artifacts found
copied!
Pre-built binaries or build from source — Cargo 1.70+

How it works

01

### Point it at your workspace

Run `irona /your/workspace` — irona walks the directory tree and finds every build artifact directory it knows about. No config, no manifest. It just works.

02

### Review the interactive checklist

A Ratatui TUI opens showing every artifact directory with its on-disk size. Navigate with ↑ ↓, toggle entries with Space. Nothing is touched until you say so.

▶ [✓] ~/projects/my-app/target 4.2 GB
[✓] ~/projects/website/node_modules 812 MB
[ ] ~/projects/dotnet-api/bin 340 MB
[ ] ~/projects/dotnet-api/obj 98 MB
[✓] ~/projects/old-site/node_modules 1.1 GB
2 selected · 5.1 GB will be freed · [space] toggle [d] delete [q] quit
03

### Press d to delete

irona removes every checked directory. Disk space reclaimed. Press q to quit. Build artifacts are regenerated by your toolchain whenever you need them again.

Supported languages

### Rust

target/

### Node.js

node_modules/

### C# / .NET

bin/ obj/

### NuGet / Paket

packages/ .paket/

### Python

.venv/ venv/

### Java / Maven

target/

### Gradle

build/ .gradle/

### Go

vendor/

### PHP

vendor/

### Ruby

vendor/ .bundle/

### Swift / SPM

.build/

### Haskell

.stack-work/

### Elm

elm-stuff/

### Dart / Flutter

.dart_tool/ build/

Download

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### crates.io

Install via Cargo — the binary is named `irona`, the crate is `irona-cli`.

`$ cargo install irona-cli`
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### Pre-built binaries

Download from GitHub Releases — no Rust toolchain needed.

Linux
x64 .tar.gz x64-musl .tar.gz ARM64 .tar.gz
macOS
Apple Silicon .tar.gz Intel .tar.gz
Windows
x64 .zip

About the name

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Irona is the loyal robotic maid from the Richie Rich comic series — always tidying up, always efficient. That's exactly what this tool does for your workspace. Named in her honour.