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It absolutely does not matter what language this tool is written in. That goes for any tool. If it’s better, use it. In this case, fd is far superior to “find” in almost every way. Sane defaults, wayyy faster, easy options (just use cht.sh if you can’t remember) To me, there is no reason to ever use “find”. If I’m on a new system, I just install fd and carry on.

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> It absolutely does not matter what language this tool is written in. That goes for any tool.

Eh, there are a lot of tools where it actually does kind of matter. I suspect for a lot of invocations of tools like `fd` and `rg`, they'll be done before an equivalent written in java has even had its JVM spin fully up.

There's _tons_ of Java software, but it somehow never managed to make a dent in the CLI space.

> To me, there is no reason to ever use “find”. If I’m on a new system, I just install fd and carry on.

I guess I should finally have a look at how to replace my `find $path -name "*.$ext" -exec nvim {} +` habit … turns out it's `fd -e $ext -X "nvim" "" $path`

it tangentially matters, because cargo is so good that I use it instead of a package manager for all these fancy rust tools

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