
EasyBuild
Arch User Repository (AUR)
Lure
Homebrew
ST - Simple Terminal
Flatpak
Task Build
A flexible package manager supporting multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.

Bat
fzf
The Silver Searcher
Starship (Shell Prompt)
Micro
lazygit
tmux
A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'.

Which is more popular?
Based on our record, fd seems to be a lot more popular than Spack. While we know about 130 links to fd, we've tracked only 3 mentions of Spack.
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| Company | — | Startup from Germany |
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fd is recommended for developers, system administrators, and power users who often search through directories and require a fast, efficient tool with a shorter learning curve.
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Recommendations tracked on public social media and blogs since March 2021.


In a similar vein, Spack and Easybuild are similar (more recent) build systems which are often used in the HPC space. * https://spack.io * https://easybuild.io. - Source: Hacker News / 6 days ago
> I find Appimage to be better alternative to Flatpak Me too. But there is a "bigger picture" view of this which I think is important and relevant: * AppImage encapsulates apps' requirements using the app bundle format from the ROX... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago
> Are we talking about the same autotools? Yes. Instead of figuring out how to do something particular with every single software package, I can do a --with-foo or --without-bar or --prefix=/opt/baz-1.2.3, and... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago
Fast-glob was the Package Killer target, but it was not the only comparison worth making. Developers often reach for fd or ripgrep when they need to locate files from a terminal. They are mature native tools with excellent defaults, so... - Source: dev.to / 12 days ago
> Find works, but the syntax is arcane. Fd is a lifesaver: https://github.com/sharkdp/fd. - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago
I know that if you want `fd` (https://github.com/sharkdp/fd) you need to `apt install fd-find` and which installs the binary `fdfind` (!). - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago
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