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Yeah and there are multiple drop in replacements for grep— he was implying those alternatives didn’t exist because rust wasn’t capable of handling them or peopl
by empath75 7y ago
Yeah and there are multiple drop in replacements for grep— he was implying those alternatives didn’t exist because rust wasn’t capable of handling them or people weren’t interesting in writing them, but I think that’s been proven wrong many times over at this point.
https://github.com/redox-os/extrautils/blob/master/src/bin/grep.rs https://github.com/redox-os/extrautils/blob/master/src/bin/g...
- otterley 7y agoWas this true in 2017, when the statement was written?
- masklinn 7y agoBoth redox's grep and ripgrep (which trivially demonstrates that a grep can be implemented in rust even if it's not a POSIX grep implementation) were created / started in early 2016, so yes. Not to mention Theo's statement is so much weaker than actually successful implementations the existence of these two completely blows through the goal: > There has been no attempt to move the smallest parts of the ecosystem, to provide replacements for base POSIX utilities.
- otterley 7y agoWhat matters is when they were feature complete, not when the project started. I can't plausibly claim that a program I wrote some code for but isn't at the state of being a viable substitute yet is a "replacement." (And yes, Theo, like many hackers, is prone to exaggeration.)