I think people were in general quite nice to him, understanding the scope of the project. Who uses ls in scripts anyway...? :-) On the other hand I think it wo

I think people were in general quite nice to him, understanding the scope of the project. Who uses ls in scripts anyway...? :-) On the other hand I think it would be great if together we would try to go back to the early attempts of writing utilities that do only one thing and can be chained together with pipes. If ls isn't a good utility for pipes we have to come up with an alternative. You can then pipe it into a frontend like exa and everybody is happy. :-) I think at hackernews there are a lot of brilliant people who would definitely be able to formulate interesting goals/projects to work on (and which will be of benefit to us all). And no, that does not always need to be an idea with which you can start a new startup. That ls is one of the utilities that needs more love from us all, I think we probably all agree on. Check your history on how often you used it in the past.