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In this first episode of Meet the Maintainers, we sit down with Andrew Gallant, the creator of ripgrep – a blazing-fast search tool that’s become a staple in every developer’s toolkit. Andrew talks us through how ripgrep’s speed and efficiency set it apart from traditional search tools, why it’s critical for developers dealing with massive codebases, and the technical challenges he faced in building it.
What’s inside?
0:47 Initializing Andrew(): why “BurntSushi”?
1:42 First commit?
2:50 Open source by default?
3:30 RIP grep?!
4:35 Turning point: rg ＜ grep
5:58 ripgrep is born
7:50 Beyond rg
8:35 Crate Escape
9:14 SeenInTheWild()
11:21 Sponsorships IRL
11:42 Boss bugs
12:24 Motivation.current(): why he still ships
13:14 Pro tip
14:29 JIFF
15:39 A message from Andrew
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