From 5649740f51a73a4ea0eee54b3f161469d50a5b7f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Heinemeier Hansson <david@hey.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2026 13:33:07 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Build the menu IPC payload with jq instead of perl

Forking perl to produce {"menu":"<route>"} cost more than the IPC call it
fed. jq is already a runtime dependency and emits identical JSON.

Opening the menu drops from ~42ms to ~28ms.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 bin/omarchy-menu | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/bin/omarchy-menu b/bin/omarchy-menu
index 59e4af8e..ecd2c2b8 100755
--- a/bin/omarchy-menu
+++ b/bin/omarchy-menu
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ verb="${1-toggle}"
 route="${2-root}"
 
 menu_payload() {
-  perl -MEncode=decode -MJSON::PP=encode_json -e 'print encode_json({ menu => decode("UTF-8", $ARGV[0]) })' "$1"
+  jq -nc --arg menu "$1" '{ menu: $menu }'
 }
 
 case "$verb" in