[alextingle]

Rust's user unfriendly build paradigm puts me off using a lot of these. Ripgrep is fine when I can install it from a package manager. But if I'm on some weird machine and need to build it then first I have to build rustc, and then it wants to download gigabytes of whatever, just to compile a better 'grep'?

[burntsushi]

You don't need to build rustc to build ripgrep. If you are, that's a choice you are making. Cross compilation is a thing. And what weird machine doesn't have a way to install a ripgrep binary anyway? It's pretty much everywhere these days.

[thiht]

> But if I'm on some weird machine

Then use grep, what’s your point? grep is not going away because ripgrep is better, but ripgrep might become more available?

I also notice you’re saying "if", so you’re not. So again, what’s your point?