Consider replacing wrap-ansi with fast-wrap-ansi

[wojtekmaj]

A recently published fast-wrap-ansi, authored by a reputable community member, claims to be 10x faster (benchmarks are included in the repo) while being half the size of wrap-ansi. It supports Node.js 18+, which is in line with what cliui currently supports (20+). Might be worth a try!

[shadowspawn]

"Recently published": at time of opening issue, less than 12 hours. 😆

cliui is currently using the family of string-width, strip-ansi, and wrap-ansi.

We do care about package size, but I think not enough to jump straight onto a fresh package. Thanks for mention though.

[shadowspawn]

Somewhat related: #178 (comment)

[43081j]

author of fast-wrap-ansi here 👋

it is early days still so may make sense to wait for some more growth - however, its worth noting we use this in clack already (a popular CLI framework), but bundle it so the download count won't show this.

moving to it would mean you'd depend on fast-wrap-ansi and fast-string-width (deep dependency). both are much faster and much smaller than the older wrap-ansi family of inter-dependent packages.

[gameroman]

Now that fast-wrap-ansi and fast-string-width have 20 million weekly downloads and have existed for almost a year, it might be a good idea to reconsider this

[vassudanagunta]

Adopted by the e18e initiative:
https://e18e.dev/docs/replacements/wrap-ansi.html#fast-wrap-ansi

[shadowspawn]

Thanks @vassudanagunta , but I have been aware of the e18e connection since the creation of this issue.