I’ve been using Arch Linux (btw) on my laptop for a while now and I’ve always used an AUR helper to automate finding, installing and updating AUR packages. I started with packer and then moved on to yaourt when packers development stopped. This also happened to yaourt so I started looking for another. The yay utility gets a lot of recommendations but it comes with a ~130MB Go dependency which put me off. So I kept looking.