Friend who is not a software person sent me this tweet, which amused me as it did them. They asked if “runk” was real, which I assume not.

But what are some good examples of real ones like this? xz became famous for the hack of course, so i then read a bit about how important this compression algorithm is/was.

    • Riskable@programming.devEnglish
      231·
      5 months ago

      Speed and memory efficiency, mostly. If you ever have to grep for something in a large number of files ripgrep will be done while regular grep will only be reaching the 25% mark.

    • refalo@programming.dev
      351·
      5 months ago

      • much faster

      • proper unicode (and other encodings) support

      • automatic recursion (no extra flags needed)

      • can search inside compressed files/archives like gz/xz/zip (also see ripgrep-all) for even more archive support)

      • honors .gitignore and ignores binary/hidden files

      probably a lot more things too