Haven't tried ripgrep before but finally installed. It is noticeably faster than older tools and more importantly the CLI ergonomics is much better! Thanks!
[1] https://github.com/lotabout/skim [2] https://github.com/zenofile/fish-skim
I haven't looked into all the tools in that list, but I would not for example recommend exa over ls as it is simply not reliable enough: if a filename ends in a space, you won't see that in exa, and that bug has been reported for years. To me that is a clear blocker, and if it is still there, I simply cannot trust the file listing from exa, no matter how pretty it may look.
Anecdote: I once had to recover a system with a corrupted libpcre.so. This will break almost every standard gnutil. The easiest way to do it without a recovery OS was to use a few alternatives written in Rust, which don't have this problem because they statically link their dependencies (and cargo still worked, so it was easy to install them).
Either way, thanks for a quality tool, more, if it inspired others to come up with good rust tools.
With that said, Go tools were doing this before Rust even hit 1.0 as far as I remember. There was 'sift' and 'pt' for "smarter" greps for example, although I don't think either of them ever fully matured.