Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust
Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust
Posted Jun 9, 2021 14:24 UTC (Wed) by mbunkus (subscriber, #87248)In reply to: Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust by eru
Parent article: Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust
ripgrep (much like all the other enhanced searcher programs out there such as Ack or Silver Surfer) isn't supposed to be a drop-in replacement for grep. It's supposed to do something similar, but in a better way and way faster. Yeah, ideally it would replace grep, but not as a drop-in but as a better alternative.
This is a different goal than rewriting programs or collections such as Coreutils.