Friend who is not a software person sent me this tweet, which amused me as it did them. They asked if “runk” was real, which I assume not.

But what are some good examples of real ones like this? xz became famous for the hack of course, so i then read a bit about how important this compression algorithm is/was.

  • runeko
    51•1 month ago

    Pretty much every basic terminal command for linux. Grep is the one that comes to mind.

    • RiskableEnglish
      25•1 month ago

      The modern man uses ripgrep 👍

      • Dave.
        23•1 month ago

        But it’s three more letters. No deal.

        • @refalo
          34•1 month ago

          • much faster

          • proper unicode (and other encodings) support

          • automatic recursion (no extra flags needed)

          • can search inside compressed files/archives like gz/xz/zip (also see ripgrep-all) for even more archive support)

          • honors .gitignore and ignores binary/hidden files

          probably a lot more things too

        • RiskableEnglish
          22•1 month ago

          Speed and memory efficiency, mostly. If you ever have to grep for something in a large number of files ripgrep will be done while regular grep will only be reaching the 25% mark.