While watching this video from Andrea Borman, one of the oldest members of the Linux community, I learned that neofetch will no longer be maintained, much to the world's dismay. So, I'm building an alternative with Python, while practicing software patterns on steroids.

With regards to speed, I presently don't think it's worth the headache, excess, and sacrifice of portability fetching information such as virtual memory stats by hand. Direct ps command invocations, for example, introduce significant overhead, as you need to fork a process for each measurement.