I have nothing against exa, but the two examples in this post are are not correct for any sort of recent system.

> Here’s an example. exa, by default, runs the stat system call on every file it encounters.

So does "ls" ... for at least last 20 years. Just checked on random Ubuntu system I had -- executables and dirs are highlighted with different colors.

> exa makes heavy use of colours, treating them as opt-out rather than opt-in: it will highlight files and data differently based on their type or meaning.

So does ls -- I see colors in default install. Yes, you need an environment variable to enable this, but all the modern distros set this anyway.

So based on that page, it seems that the only thing that EXA does differently is that it upgrades ls's 16 color palette to 256 colors.

I think they need stronger motivation.