Speaking of faster coreutils replacements, I highly recommend ripgrep (rg) and fd-find (fd), which are Rust-based, incompatible replacements for grep and find.
I know I'm way behind the popularity curve* (they're already in debian-stable, for crying out loud); but for the benefit of anyone even more out of the loop than myself, do check these out. The speed increase is amazing: a significant quality-of-life improvement, essentially for free**. Particularly if you're on a modern NVME SSD and not utilizing it properly. (Incidentally, did you know the "t" in coreutil's "tar" stands for magnetic [t]ape?")
* (The now-top reply to this comment says 'ag' is even superior to 'rg', and they're probably right, but I had no clue about it! I did say I'm ignorant!)
**(Might have some cost if you're heavily invested in power-user syntax of the GNU or BSD versions, in which case incompatibility has a price).
https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep
https://github.com/sharkdp/fd
I know I'm way behind the popularity curve* (they're already in debian-stable, for crying out loud); but for the benefit of anyone even more out of the loop than myself, do check these out. The speed increase is amazing: a significant quality-of-life improvement, essentially for free**. Particularly if you're on a modern NVME SSD and not utilizing it properly. (Incidentally, did you know the "t" in coreutil's "tar" stands for magnetic [t]ape?")
* (The now-top reply to this comment says 'ag' is even superior to 'rg', and they're probably right, but I had no clue about it! I did say I'm ignorant!)
**(Might have some cost if you're heavily invested in power-user syntax of the GNU or BSD versions, in which case incompatibility has a price).
https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep
https://github.com/sharkdp/fd