bat VS glow

Compare bat vs glow and see what are their differences.

glow

Render markdown on the CLI, with pizzazz! 💅🏻 (by charmbracelet)
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bat glow
169 52
40,223 12,014
- 4.1%
7.2 8.6
9 days ago 10 days ago
Rust Go
Apache License 2.0 MIT License
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bat

Posts with mentions or reviews of bat. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-18.

glow

Posts with mentions or reviews of glow. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-18.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing bat and glow you can also consider the following projects:

pcstat - Page Cache stat: get page cache stats for files on Linux

vim-colors-solarized - precision colorscheme for the vim text editor

exa - A modern replacement for ‘ls’.

markdown-preview.nvim - markdown preview plugin for (neo)vim

iTerm2-Color-Schemes - Over 250 terminal color schemes/themes for iTerm/iTerm2. Includes ports to Terminal, Konsole, PuTTY, Xresources, XRDB, Remmina, Termite, XFCE, Tilda, FreeBSD VT, Terminator, Kitty, MobaXterm, LXTerminal, Microsoft's Windows Terminal, Visual Studio, Alacritty

awesome-zsh-plugins - A collection of ZSH frameworks, plugins, themes and tutorials.

fzf - :cherry_blossom: A command-line fuzzy finder

sh - A shell parser, formatter, and interpreter with bash support; includes shfmt

mdless

vim-dim - Dim (/dɪm/; a contraction of Default IMproved) is a clone of Vim’s default colorscheme, with some improvements.

ripgrep - ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore

bubbletea - A powerful little TUI framework 🏗