oldroad

Which version do you have? I know earlier versions had constantly changing keybindings, but in v3.6 it shows z as archive. You can also use ] to open up a shell and run an arbitrary command, or write up a script to use as a plugin to archive/extract/etc.

Mostly memory safety vs other systems languages. I’m not super knowledgable on the details as I’m a hobbyist pythonista, but I’ve been looking through the Rust book to slowly learn it for projects that might be better than using Python.

If you like terminal programs, you can give nnn a try.

https://github.com/jarun/nnn

Fast, great feature set and keybindings, and very configurable!