Re:Modern Linux tools
by alextingle on Tuesday October 14, 2025 @05:53AM
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Rust's user unfriendly build paradigm puts me off using a lot of these. Ripgrep is fine when I can install it from a package manager. But if I'm on some weird machine and need to build it then first I have to build rustc, and then it wants to download gigabytes of whatever, just to compile a better 'grep'?
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Re:Modern Linux tools
by burntsushi on Tuesday October 14, 2025 @08:11AM
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You don't need to build rustc to build ripgrep. If you are, that's a choice you are making. Cross compilation is a thing. And what weird machine doesn't have a way to install a ripgrep binary anyway? It's pretty much everywhere these days.
> But if I'm on some weird machine
Then use grep, what’s your point? grep is not going away because ripgrep is better, but ripgrep might become more available?
I also notice you’re saying "if", so you’re not. So again, what’s your point?