While digging up alternatives (of course after I had already written most of the functionality), I briefly tried out fzf. I think at that time I couldn't find an example snippet like yours to do the cding, so I didn't look into it much more. With some basic settings, it was also not easy (or even possible?) to go up in the folder tree, but I see that your example handles that.
If you're unfamiliar with a big folder tree, fzf (or another very similar tool that is designed for this purpose, broot) can be more efficient. But it might take a while for it to scan all subfolders.
While digging up alternatives (of course after I had already written most of the functionality), I briefly tried out fzf. I think at that time I couldn't find an example snippet like yours to do the cding, so I didn't look into it much more. With some basic settings, it was also not easy (or even possible?) to go up in the folder tree, but I see that your example handles that.
If you're unfamiliar with a big folder tree, fzf (or another very similar tool that is designed for this purpose, broot) can be more efficient. But it might take a while for it to scan all subfolders.