Re:Regex Engine Internals as a Library
by otterpro on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @11:30AM
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I use Ripgrep daily for searching anything in code or in text files, and I'm grateful every time I use it (on windows, linux, mac, vscode, vim, etc...). It's one of those software that has changed my life and how I work. Whenever I'm forced to use `grep`, it feels like I've travelled back in time when everything ran on a single core CPU and data were on slow spinning hard disk on PATA/IDE. Anyway, burntsushi definitely deserves honor amongst other great programmers.
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ripgrep comes out of a "lineage", before it there was ag and before that ack, that did similar things to provide a much better interface than just grep.
Re:Regex Engine Internals as a Library
by theonething on Thursday July 06, 2023 @12:18AM
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I'm still using ag and haven't tried ripgrep just because ag is already so fast for me. I should probably still try it sometime thought.