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Re:Greppability is an underrated code metric by renox on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @06:45AM (#41433457)
The thing is: In large codebase the tool may become slow or crash, in a new language you may not have such tool.. Grep is far more robust!
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Re:Greppability is an underrated code metric by troupo on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @11:26AM (#41435883)
When tools don't work or unsuitable, you use different tools.

And yet people are obsessed with never using useful tools in the first place because they can invent scenarios when this tool doesn't work. Even if these scenarios might never actually come up in their daily work.

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