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by jedisct1 1520 days ago
ugrep is written in C++ and is way better than ripgrep.
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Well, it’s quite a departure. rg builds on grep’s foundation and is a good CLI citizen, and ugrep offers a TUI and bells and whistles and a whole DSL to filter out files and run iconv on them… I’m unsure. It’s like giving me a car because I need a reading light. Would disrupt my usual workflows, while rg just displaced grep organically.

I’m quite wary of jq for the reason that usually I don’t need it often enough to learn its language. That would be another piece of software like this.

How is it better? I'm curious.