I didn't know I needed it, but what I know is that I will download it.

    • Rescuer6394@feddit.nl
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      1 year ago

      me too, apparently they added some features and fixes. i wonder why they did it on a fork instead of pushing it upstream.

    • snaggen@programming.dev
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      1 year ago

      Absolutely nothing.... but for some reason I find it interesting when people rewrite things that I didn't know needed rewrites. Sometimes these projects are doing someting really interesting. Grep is one such example, noone was saying that grep needed a replacement. In fact, it was used as a benchmark for regex (which is how rg started, to compare rust regex against grep), then someone creates rg that outperforms grep and is much nicer to use. That is also why I keep an eye on GitOxide, since nobody ever accused git of being slow, yet there are someone rewriting git with amazing performance improvements.

    • autokludge@programming.dev
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      1 year ago

      'Should' is a pretty strong word, try it out if you want.

      I mainly use it because it colorizes the output nicer than ls, but it also has git awareness if you need it.

      *removed externally hosted image*