I couln't agree more. I have had the pleasure to work alongside David for the past couple of years. His passion for sharing knowledge, expertise and code has not only benefited our team, but is a great inspiration to everyone around him! What's visible in open source is only the tip of the iceberg ;)

For folks looking for more of "modern + useful CLI tools that happen to be written in Rust a lot of the time", there's this list from Julia Evans (which features all the sharkdp tools from this article as well): https://jvns.ca/blog/2022/04/12/a-list-of-new-ish--command-l...

Wow, very nice surprise to find this on the HN frontpage, posted by someone else no less! I guess I'm not the only person who reads my blog after all ;)

Thanks chmaynard - and sharkdp!

Thanks, sharkdp, as well as burntsushi. First thing I do on any machine I work with is to install all their tools.

They are reliable, they have excellent defaults and have made me more productive.

I also recommend them on a regular basis.

So many unsung heros in the open-source space, while it's so easy to forget people who worked hard on the tool you just used.

On this note, I've actually used hyperfine a while back for some quick benchmarking - thanks to David and other contributors for bringing it to live and continuously maintaining it!

I will say thank you as well. I support these projects on GH.

I met him in person years ago. Well-deserved praise!

I had no idea who David Peter was but drilled in and saw "sharkdp" and was like, YES! THANK YOU SO MUCH!

I love the work he has done and glad I clicked into this even though I never learned his real name.