In the beginning, I used ls(1).

Then I wrote a wrapper in Perl that took the output of ls(1) and colorized it, because that was fashionable at the time.

Much later, I threw all that away and rewrote the entire thing in Rust (not just the colorizer), because that was fashionable at the time.

About a week ago, I threw all that away and rewrote the entire thing in C (and extended it in the process), because ... just for fun.

There are some TODOs left. It's now quite customizable (colors, layout, strftime formats, LS_COLORS, ...). All through environment variables, because I'm tired of config.h and recompiling all the time. Discovered µnit, a small unit testing framework for C.


I doubt that this program is useful to other people (tools like exa) exist, so I probably won't publish it. But it's fun and that's what matters. :)