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I'm not gonna hate on this too much; side projects like this are fun and help the creator understand the filesystem-side of their operating system. The colors a
by chomp 5y ago
I'm not gonna hate on this too much; side projects like this are fun and help the creator understand the filesystem-side of their operating system. The colors are pretty, there's some nifty features to better understand the file list you're staring at.
This won't ever replace `ls` because it's not POSIX compliant, but that's okay because I don't think it needs to be. I have run into cases where downstream packages have dependencies on non-POSIX commands which gets a little annoying, but you can always choose something else (or take it on yourself to re-implement their idea in a POSIX-compliant way), which is the whole point of open source software.
Let this creator have their fun!
- TacticalCoder 5y agoIt's like saying ripgrep won't ever replace grep... It's true but for many use cases (for example in many shell scripts) but there are much more people using ripgrep than just its creator. exa is already several years old and has 15 K thousands stars on Github. Not to mention all the people using it that never bothered to give it a star.