[huntie]

I use ripgrep and it's pretty great, but I don't know why Visual Studio Code would be using it. Why not just use Rust's Regex library instead?

[lillesvin]

I'm just guessing here, but ripgrep is an executable that they can bundle and write a simple wrapper around. VSCode isn't written in Rust so they'd have to write their own "grep" in Rust which most likely wouldn't be anywhere near as good as ripgrep.

Or am I misunderstanding your question?

[burntsushi]

Well, ripgrep uses Rust's regex library. If VS code used the regex library directly, then they would basically wind up re-creating ripgrep (or something very similar) itself.

[dfee]

Is it? Funny because I have tmux open in the side pane, and execute my searches that way.

[lillesvin]

Yup: https://users.rust-lang.org/t/ripgrep-is-now-the-standard-te...