Comments by "Anony Mousse" (@anon_y_mousse) on "" video.

I'd prefer a switch. For instance, less can interpret escape sequences correctly if you use -r or -R, and a lot of times when you pipe to it all the color information gets squelched, and ls can be forced to always output color, as can other standard commands.
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I've never had a problem with the old commands. I use df to summarize my disks and part of that includes piping to awk to select the ones I want to see. It was slightly too complex for an alias, so I wrote a bash function and added it to my ~/.bash_aliases file where I've got a lot of shorthand variants for doing things. I list my files in chronological order, so I've got a function I named lrt to do the obvious. Since I force ls to use decorators I can parse on that to get the list of directories. Which really only works because I use a regular naming scheme for my files and folders. If something I download has a space, I use rename 'y/ /_/'. However, not everyone is even that capable, and for such people as don't want to learn the old ways and bend them to their will, all of these Rust-y versions give them the fancy colored output and ease of use providing features that they'd have to spend at least 20 minutes reimplementing. So for such people it makes sense to have easy mode apps that they don't have to configure. I'd still rather configure, though.
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@EpKjelltzer That assumes I like the defaults or that they're drop in replacements. They often aren't. Especially considering how often I find that the Rust versions are missing features, such as ripgrep being unable to perform proper PCRE searches. Several people keep telling me it's unimportant while it attempts to provide a subset of functionality I already had with standard grep. Doesn't really help matters when the Rustaceans are so toxic either.
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