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It seems awesome, specially the --tree option. I would love to try it, but

    Download and install Rust Nightly for your platform.
    Install libgit2 and cmake using your favourite package
      management system (or pass --no-default-features to the
      next step)
    Run git clone https://github.com/ogham/exa.git to download
      the latest version of exa.
    Run cargo build in the new directory to compile exa.
    Move the resulting target/exa executable into a directory
      in your $PATH, or add an alias for it in your shell.


But what? This is some code that some dude wrote and published courteously open-source, it's written in a rather-newborn language and it is for computer-savvy users. Were you expecting a binary installer?


I wasn't. I am not complaining, just saying that there is too much friction in all this. Happens with every programming language.


That all just takes a couple minutes.




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