alt Hacker News> There's no need to design the syntax for grep because Kotlin is intended to be used with a good IDE that can answer this query instantly and precisely.
On large projects its still cheaper and faster to grep from the CLI than to use Intellij IDE search. Esp if you wish to restrict search to subsets of dirs.
Command-line greppability is a serious use case.
Zig is also 5-10x faster to compile than Kotlin.
On function syntax, I agree with you. It was a mistake not to use fn:ReturnType. It has destroyed future lambdas.
> On large projects its still cheaper and faster to grep from the CLI than to use Intellij IDE search. Esp if you wish to restrict search to subsets of dirs.
You must never have used Intellij to say that... it hurts me to hear this. If I catch a developer "grepping" for some type in the CLI, I will sit down with them for a few hours explaining how to use an IDE and how grep is just dumb text search without any of the semantic understanding of the code that an IDE has, and they should never do that again.
EDIT: IntelliJ is better than grep even at "free text" search... Much better as it will show you the results as you type, extremely fast, and lets you preview them and see their "surrounding code"... and you can then choose to navigate to a place instantly... and yes, you can scope the search to a particular directory if you want... if you can't see how this is miles superior to CLI grep, then there's no use arguing as you've made up your mind you just love being in the CLI for no actual rational reason.