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if you want to try fd, bat, numbat, hexyl and hyperfine, you can install them quickly and see screenshots of them below on Terminal Trove:

we make a real effort to ensure that you can install them with the ability to see the screenshots.

cool site, have you considered using asciicinema instead of screenshots? Seems like the perfect tool for what you're trying to do

I clicked on several utils on the site, and they all had GIFs of the demos.

I think terminaltrove takes these from the projects themselves instead of creating them on their own.

I look forward to exploring the tools some more. Though, I install everything these days via mise (which you list as well).

Would be cool if you had mise commands - be it just

mise use -g fd

or for other tools that arent in their registry, how to use the backends like

mise use -g cargo:xyztool

Perhaps something like https://github.com/xtermjs/xterm.js can be used to show interactive sessions for TUI apps.

Nice suggestions, I’ll be definitely trying numbat and hyperfine (I already use fd daily).

I could see bat being useful only as the last program on a long pipe chain, but I really like xxd so I will pass on hexyl.