would anyone actually use a devrant cli client ??

Your username describes my sentiment exactly

Definitely

Didn't @ewpratten write one?

@bahua i both wrote and broke one. Yes.

It's a fun project to make one, but at the time I did mine, there was little actual interest.

Bit like jsrant and xmlrant, cool on their own, but ultimately useless.

Well there is one I think.
There's also another GUI client, which sadly segfaults immediately.

Yea if a working one was there I would use it.

I'd love to integrate some devrant notifications into my shell rc.

there's people who use cli tool for traversal and manipulation of multi-dimensional spacetime trees of changes, so i don't see how what you're asking is beyond the level of self-imposed obnoxiousness already proven to exist.

If we didn't have to go through a proxy, yes.