Recently I've been seeing a lot of programs on GitHub that are rewritten versions of common UNIX command-line programs. These programs usually claim to be faster, and feature lots of colors. Some I've stumbled upon have been fd, sd, exa, and lsd. Funnily they are all written in rust. fd, and sd seem interesting, and quite useful, on the other hand, I have some negative opinions on exa and lsd. Exa offers a ton of features that I feel would be useful in something like a vifm, ranger, etc, but not in a "ls" style program. Also, if you want a super colorful ls output, use a LS_COLORS generator. lsd adds Font Awesome icons and more coloring options, but these don't seem necessary when most people just use ls to quickly view a directory's contents, as intended.