bat VS glow

Compare bat vs glow and see what are their differences.

glow

Render markdown on the CLI, with pizzazz! šŸ’…šŸ» (by charmbracelet)
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bat glow
195 60
45,969 14,530
- 2.8%
9.5 6.9
4 days ago 12 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 2024-02-13.

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 2024-01-15.

What are some alternatives?

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

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

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

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

exa - A modern replacement for ā€˜lsā€™.

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

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

mdless

mdcat - cat for markdown

fzf - :cherry_blossom: A command-line fuzzy finder

glow.nvim - A markdown preview directly in your neovim.

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

vim-dim - Dim (/dÉŖm/; a contraction of Default IMproved) is a clone of Vimā€™s default colorscheme, with some improvements.