I just learned:

https://github.com/ogham/exa the ls replacement has been replaced by https://github.com/eza-community/eza

the exa repo says:

exa is unmaintained, use the fork eza instead.
(This repository isn’t archived because the only person with the rights to do so is unreachable).

For the curious, looks like the story, contributor deliberations and conversations are here: [Question] Is this project still being actively maintained? · Issue #1139 · ogham/exa

hope everyone involved is OK & on to other projects

both projects are MIT licensed and written in rust.

  • maegul (he/they)
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    1 year ago

    Good to hear. I’ve been on exa for a while now and would hate going back.

    Sad to hear of the original author’s disappearance. Hopefully they’re ok!

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    1 year ago

    To my surprise this was already in the official Arch repos. I used lsd in the past and wonder how it compares to eza .

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      1 year ago

      one thing lsd can do that is AFAIK unique amongst ls-type tools: report actual file size on directories

      worth having installed for this feature alone

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    1 year ago

    Alpine made the switch the other day. Didn’t have to do anything except update. I like it when things work out like that, hope the original exa author is chillin somewhere enjoying themselves.

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    1 year ago

    Used exa on Windows despite the bugginess (there was a PR making it work on Windows that I’d cargo install directly), and I’m glad to see it forked and in active development. These days I use nu and its ls command, but I would highly recommend exa for people using more standard shells.