Ripgrep – A new command line search tool

Re:Ripgrep – A new command line search tool by ekidd on Friday September 23, 2016 @12:06PM (#12565615)

Honestly, for a certain kind of developer—I haven't fingerpointed exactly which kind—writing Rust code is dangerously addictive. There's some combination of aggressive type checking, tooling, and expressiveness that just hits a sweet spot in my brain.

Rust fills roughly the same niche in my brain as old-school C++, except it also lets me do some rudimentary functional stuff, there are virtually no footguns, and the CLI tooling is out of this world. And I've long since made friends with the borrow checker. So it's tempting to just spend my life cranking out Rust code as fast as I can. It's actually a problem. :-)

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Re:Ripgrep – A new command line search tool by CJefferson on Friday September 23, 2016 @12:21PM (#12565747)

Well in the interests of making contraversal statements, that's now two Rust programs I plan on using day-to-day, and zero for Haskell, Scala, and I'm sure a few other languages I'm not remembering.

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Re:Ripgrep – A new command line search tool by livestockboy on Friday September 23, 2016 @05:08PM (#12567955)

Pandoc

Xmonad

Darcs

Git-annex

Although, it would be very hard to write SIMD performant code in Haskell, even its string libraries don't use any optimization tricks.

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Re:Ripgrep – A new command line search tool by dgr-nn-glth on Friday September 23, 2016 @11:01PM (#12569233)

I was excited when I heard of it, but I thought Darcs had run into some major issues with patch theory and exponential merges. Other than it being written in Haskell, why would I use it over git?

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Re:Ripgrep – A new command line search tool by livestockboy on Saturday September 24, 2016 @04:41AM (#12570100)

Well, speed issues are currently not that noticeable (a lot of times passed since initial bumps) but I'm pretty sure some large repositories (more than millions of lines of patches) wouldn't be able to work with it.

git is a whole different story compared to darcs, darcs is simpler to use, especially when merging.

if it was consistently fast I'm pretty sure git wouldn't be as popular as it is.

there is rust vcs https://pijul.org/ that seems to be doing the same thing as darcs but faster.

so I guess CJefferson's controversial comment stands :D

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Re:Ripgrep – A new command line search tool by unfamiliar on Friday September 23, 2016 @01:15PM (#12566242)

It will only be a matter of time before someone rewrites xmonad in Rust.

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Re:Ripgrep – A new command line search tool by steveklabnik on Friday September 23, 2016 @01:29PM (#12566373)

Negative time, actually: https://github.com/kintaro/wtftw

(there's an i3 inspired one as well, I forget the link)

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Re:Ripgrep – A new command line search tool by awesomebob on Friday September 23, 2016 @03:20PM (#12567240)

Nice!

I think this is the other one you were thinking of: https://github.com/tsurai/xr3wm

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Re:Ripgrep – A new command line search tool by FreeFull on Friday September 23, 2016 @05:00PM (#12567910)

There is a different one based on wlc (So it's a wayland compositor, rather than just an X11 window manager). The one you linked doesn't seem to have been updated since 2015

Edit: Here it is: https://github.com/Immington-Industries/way-cooler

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Re:Ripgrep – A new command line search tool by sitkack on Friday September 23, 2016 @04:46PM (#12567823)

I need an R5RS+ Scheme that is tightly integrated with Rust. High-level and fast enough, with the ability to drop down into Rust for speed.

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