Rust-y terminal application replacements
Published on 27/10/2023
Last modified at 30/10/2023
Supposedly well informed people have informed me that Rust is the future of low level programming. Although, to be fair; compared to JavaScript pretty much everything else is low level programming at this point, so what would I know about it? (the joke being that JavaScript uses a lot of memory)
Memory safety with the borrow checker! An actual package manager! developer experience! the dream is real! By sheer, utter coincidence the next couple of terminal applications I list here are written in Rust.
bat
bat is nice drop-in replacement for cat that features neat features like syntax highlighting for multiple programming and markup languages, line numbers and displaying multiple files output at once.
eza
eza is a fork of exa (which I found out during the process of writing this that it was no longer maintained), an ls replacement. Generating output that at least to me, is a little easier on the eyes (and has support for icons for those that care about that sort of thing)
I use the following aliases in my .zshrc file:
