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And it will still lack many of the features that exa has. Although it's no longer maintained, I suspect it will also continue to work for a long time. There's a
by michaelmior 3y ago
And it will still lack many of the features that exa has. Although it's no longer maintained, I suspect it will also continue to work for a long time. There's also a fork that is still maintained.
Personally, I tend to avoid using replacements for POSIX tools in any shell scripts where possible for this reason. But in terms of what I use day-to-day in interactive sessions, I'll take whatever improvements modern tools will give.
- blowski 3y agoa.k.a. tradeoffs. You can have more features for less stability, so you need to decide what you care more about in a given context.
- michaelmior 3y agoAbsolutely. (Although I'm not convinced that exa or a fork won't still function perfectly fine in 20 years.)