The feature is common: listing files. We know that indexes help solve the issue. But we still use `find` because there's no efficient files indexing strategy. Yes, there's updatedb/mlocate, but updating the db requires a full traversal of the filesytem because there's no efficient listing of changes in linux, only filesystems-specific stuff.
So we will still have articles like this until the situation changes, and it will still be relevant to the discussion because it's not "solved"
NTFS maintains a journal of all files modification (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USN_Journal). This is used by Everything (https://www.voidtools.com/support/everything/) to quickly and efficiently index _all_ files and folders. Thanks to that, searching for a file is instantaneous because it's "just an index read".
The feature is common: listing files. We know that indexes help solve the issue. But we still use `find` because there's no efficient files indexing strategy. Yes, there's updatedb/mlocate, but updating the db requires a full traversal of the filesytem because there's no efficient listing of changes in linux, only filesystems-specific stuff.
So we will still have articles like this until the situation changes, and it will still be relevant to the discussion because it's not "solved"