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The owner of a repository dying (assumption) is an example why you don't trust modern software? The active maintainers moved the project to a shared repository with a different name 2 years after the creator was seen anywhere.
You could argue that "modern" versions of old tools with a bus factor of 1 are harder to trust.
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pneumatic drill: 8 years, dead the sharp stick of metal my dad gave me: 38 years and counting long live the sharp stick of metal ? What a terrible take. Yes, ls is maintained. Although, maintained is a very strong word. It exists. It's getting a few maintenance commits here and there, and in the mean time, it's feature done. It won't evolve anymore. Just like how exa will keep existing, and won't evolve anymore. Exa…
> Yes, ls is maintained. Although, maintained is a very strong word. It exists. Why would it be a strong word? Here it is, in src/ls.c: https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils It is then packaged by tens of operating system distributions, who themselves maintain extra patchsets, some of which are then upstreamed. It is installed and used on millions (billions?) of devices, for 3 decades. It's a very reliable and trust…
Yet another example of why I don't trust any software that markets itself as "modern". In another 20 years, ls will still work perfectly fine.
The owner of a repository dying (assumption) is an example why you don't trust modern software? The active maintainers moved the project to a shared repository with a different name 2 years after the creator was seen anywhere.
I just use good old ls with LS_COLORS generated by vivid [1] [1]: https://github.com/sharkdp/vivid
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> I absolutely love the trend of rewriting classic Unix utilities I avoid them unless I'm capable of maintaining them myself. My primary reason for using classic Unix utilities is trusting that they'll still work in a few years. The initial stages of a rewrite can be a lot of fun, but I want to use it long after the excitement has worn off.
YMMV, but many of us find it easier to maintain rust + cargo than the old C + autotools mess.
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YMMV, but many of us find it easier to maintain rust + cargo than the old C + autotools mess.
And yet, exa is deprecated :-)
EDIT: ls on linux is apparently an executable part of GNU and not a built-in
Yet another example of why I don't trust any software that markets itself as "modern". In another 20 years, ls will still work perfectly fine.