People might assume you have ripgrep, or fd, I suppose?
Ultimately, though, I think the importance of having a guarantee that the OS has the complete built-in 'swiss army chainsaw' (to borrow a Perl-ism) just isn't as high priority in the age of modern package managed, dependency graphed, fibre connected always online systems vs. big monolithic beasts that you maybe 'make install' the odd extra piece of software you heard about on usenet, once the 300 baud modem is done bleep-blooping out the source from the CVS repository. =P
That said, we do get new toys, right up to the kernel level; compression algorithms like zstd, hashing algorithms like xxhash, the slow & steady (glacial?) advance of BTRFS features...
If there is demand for something like age, you'd expect it'll filter through into the base of distros, become 'de facto standard', glom onto the kernel, etc. etc. like other stuff people find useful and want, no?
(Even if not, it's written in go, so... 'go install filippo.io/age/cmd/...@latest'? =d
Issues aside, modern lang-specific package managers make it stupidly easy to grab software these days.)
Ultimately, though, I think the importance of having a guarantee that the OS has the complete built-in 'swiss army chainsaw' (to borrow a Perl-ism) just isn't as high priority in the age of modern package managed, dependency graphed, fibre connected always online systems vs. big monolithic beasts that you maybe 'make install' the odd extra piece of software you heard about on usenet, once the 300 baud modem is done bleep-blooping out the source from the CVS repository. =P
That said, we do get new toys, right up to the kernel level; compression algorithms like zstd, hashing algorithms like xxhash, the slow & steady (glacial?) advance of BTRFS features...
If there is demand for something like age, you'd expect it'll filter through into the base of distros, become 'de facto standard', glom onto the kernel, etc. etc. like other stuff people find useful and want, no?
(Even if not, it's written in go, so... 'go install filippo.io/age/cmd/...@latest'? =d Issues aside, modern lang-specific package managers make it stupidly easy to grab software these days.)