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REAL "modern" alternatives to common tools?

ARTICLE Published on April 3, 2026

By OkEscape8332

Source: Reddit 1 min read intermediate

Summary

"modern" in the sense with needed or simply QoL improvements that the "original" doesn't have. Like "eza" over "ls", "fd" over "find", "ripgrep" over coreutils "grep", "nix" over whatever is out there etc.. (Not a nix user so I might be wrong) And "sd" or "ruplacer" over "sed" Hence uutils and "rewrites" don't count, as it has no planned differences to GNU coreutils (and "rewritten in rust" isn't much for silly core CLI tools which don't do much to have problems; language doesn't count that m

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