On Thu, Sep 4, 2025 at 2:07 AM Ron via Talk <talk@lists.gtalug.org> wrote:
Anyone using `batcat` or `lolcat` as `cat` alternatives?
Tried it. Cute, but the novelty wore off quickly to me. Some parts of its rainbow output are harder to read off a black background than others. I find curious what seems to be a newfound interest in command-line innovation, some of which has found its way to this list. Combined with discussions of fish and hyprland, I wonder if there's simply an exhaustion of GUI development, and reinventing the Unix terminal experience seems quite the new thing. There's even a fairly new vim-"inspired" browser called Vieb <https://vieb.dev/>. Is this a trend, or just a coincidence of stuff we seem to be discovering at the same time? - Evan