Re: bat. I agree with you, I don’t get the hype over this program either. It’s pretty easy to configure 'less’ to use syntax highlighting and ‘less’ is installed basically everywhere.

The main advantage of rg is how much faster it is than grep. It’s WAY faster.

I don’t use direnv but I have colleagues who do. I think the idea is that it can set environment variables/run arbitrary commands when you cd into a certain directory (such as activating a Python virtual env, for instance).