alt Hacker NewsHasn’t someone rewritten ripgrep in rust by now? C’mon it’s 2026. Oh wait it was written in Rust (back in 2016).
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qudat • today at 11:20 AM
Waiting for the zig port
vortegne • today at 11:21 AM
https://github.com/alexpasmantier/grip-grab
Someone kinda did
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The fun part is it is pretty easy to “rewrite” ripgrep in rust, because burntsushi wrote it as a ton of crates which you can reuse. So you can reuse this to build your own with blackjack and hookers.