[tspiteri]

I love Rust, but I love and recommend ripgrep because of its usefulness, reliability and robustness, not because of the language it's written in.

I haven't looked into all the tools in that list, but I would not for example recommend exa over ls as it is simply not reliable enough: if a filename ends in a space, you won't see that in exa, and that bug has been reported for years. To me that is a clear blocker, and if it is still there, I simply cannot trust the file listing from exa, no matter how pretty it may look.

[duped]

Static linking goes a long way to making Rust worth considering when choosing tools.

Anecdote: I once had to recover a system with a corrupted libpcre.so. This will break almost every standard gnutil. The easiest way to do it without a recovery OS was to use a few alternatives written in Rust, which don't have this problem because they statically link their dependencies (and cargo still worked, so it was easy to install them).

[saagarjha]

Your anecdote is amusing, but I hope you’re not using it as an example to support your claim that Rust’s static linking should be considered when choosing tools.