Ah I see. You are right. I missed that you were going after that. I'm personally only really familiar with CPython, so that is indeed what I had in mind. To be honest, I don't really know what a ripgrep in Cython would look like. Is there a separate Cython standard library, for example? Or do you still use Python's main standard library?

We don't have to tumble down that rabbit hole though. If someone wrote a ripgrep in Cython and matched performance, then I would definitely learn something.

> "ripgrep needs 'low level tricks' to be fast and a language that allows them, such as Rust"

I might use that, sure. I think my point above was that I had to riff off of someone else's language. But I think we covered that. :-) In any case, yes, that phrasing sounds better.

Anyway, good chatting with you, good night!