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> The unix philosophy is a great idea, but it doesn't really lead to a good experience. Glad people are making more integrated tools!

Bit ironical, as ls already is pretty "non-unixy" and has way too many features tacked into it.

From purism point of view it would make more sense that ls would be just a list of files and let other utilities (stat, sort, etc) handle the rest.

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That would be great. Probably about 40% of all issues in bash scripts I see is people trying to parse ls because they don't know other tools. It would be amazing if ls reigned in the features some so people learned better tools.

That's got UX backwards. You'd want to minimize the effort user has to make, no?

I don't really think that minimizing user efffort was part of the Unix philosophy, but rather to have tools do one thing well and be able to become input to another program that does something else well.

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