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No matter what you do, at least one person will be unhappy about it.

> I have tried to use budget surplus to reward open source projects we use. "We've never heard of that happening, so no."

What does "dead" mean?

I suggest that there are no meaningful conclusions to be gleaned from the TIOBE rankings.

Can you dedicate employee time to help on the projects?

> It's too bad Raku didn't have a different name from the start. We thought that it would take a year or two, not decades. Also, the intent was to have a Perl 5 compatibility mode.…

The reference to "Programming Perl" was no doubt helped along by Perl developer Jesse Sheidlower who worked at the OED in the early 2000s. From his Wikipedia page: "Although not a …

> I use almost none of its more esoteric features Which features do you see as esoteric?

What makes ugrep better for your use cases?

That still might run afoul of locked down networks like I've seen at banks. Users couldn't install any binaries at all, but with something like ack it's just cut & paste some text …

Here's another site of mine y'all may be interested in: https://altbox.dev/ It's a collection of improved shell tools, organized by the tool they supplement. As with this feature c…

What do you love about ugrep?

"grep | head" doesn't limit the length of output lines, but "grep | cut" would. However, ack and ripgrep's default unpiped output is grouped by file, and if you pipe the output, it…

The "print lines by number" was there because earlier versions of ack had a `--line=N` feature, where you could say "ack --line=15-18" and print those four lines. I dropped it beca…

That's how I had it at first. I originally had it as a "phrasebook" of how to do the same thing in the different tools, but it was really ugly and took up a lot of horizontal space…

If there are things you think are confusing or inaccurate, please do make GitHub issues for them. Thanks.

Or maybe I just need to move it up in my priority stack.

There are a ton of articles out there about it: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ripgrep+%2B+fzf

I'm glad you appreciate that you can install ack anywhere. It's exactly for that use case that I have kept ack able to be a single text file download. Also, it only requires Perl 5…

Please note that the chart is a bit out of date. ripgrep has some features that aren't shown on the chart yet. Patches welcome if anyone wants to help. https://github.com/beyondgre…

> I do not know of a competitor who has put the care into such a tool to even try to measure, though. As an aside, I'm the author of ack, and I would ask that folks not use the wor…

It's one of a number of greplike tools out there. Here's a comparison chart: https://beyondgrep.com/feature-comparison/ If you're looking for other alternative shell tools, take a …

Please let me know what's new so that I can update the chart. Dumping into an issue will do, and then I can worry about getting it into chart format. https://github.com/beyondgrep/…

exa looks pretty slick, except for having the keys required be on the two weakest fingers of my left hand. :-(

Note that rg and ag don't have the same feature sets. Here's a handy chart that shows the differences. https://beyondgrep.com/feature-comparison/