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
    52·
    5 months ago

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

    • RiskableEnglish
      261·
      5 months ago

      The modern man uses ripgrep 👍

        • refalo
          351·
          5 months 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
          231·
          5 months 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.