historical guide · 1 editor-verified alternatives · exa overview →
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discontinued Maintainer stopped responding to issues and PRs in mid-2023, with no commits after April 2023. Critical bugs and security issues went unpatched. The community forked it as eza, which rapidly overtook exa in adoption. A textbook case of single-maintainer burnout killing a popular open-source project.
Modern replacement for the Unix ls command written in Rust with color-coded output, Git integration showing file status, tree view, icon support, extended attributes display, and hyperlink support for terminals. Faster than ls with features like recursive directory listing, grid/long/tree layouts, and filtering by file type. Maintained fork of the discontinued exa project. Part of the modern CLI toolkit alongside bat, fd, ripgrep, and zoxide. 14K+ GitHub stars.
eza — see all open-source developer tools.
eza tops our editor-verified list of 1 exa alternatives.
Yes — eza are open source.
exa has been discontinued — Maintainer stopped responding to issues and PRs in mid-2023, with no commits after April 2023. Critical bugs and security issues went unpatched. The community forked it as eza, which rapidly overtook exa in adoption. A textbook case of single-maintainer burnout killing a popular open-source project. The closest editor-verified replacements are eza.