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What are the most useful applications/utilities written in Rust?

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6 Options Considered

What are the most useful applications/utilities written in Rust	Price	License	Supported platforms
-- RipGrep (command line file search)	-	MIT/Unlicense	Windows, MacOS, Linux
-- Alacritty	0	-	-
-- Cargo	Free	-	-
-- zoxide (smarter cd command)	0	-	-
-- Exa (command line file list)	-	-	-

RipGrep (command line file search)

Top Pro

ripgrep lets you only search certain types of files via file type whitelist

Top Con

No multiline support

No newline support, unlike other advanced grep replacements (pcregrep), multi-line search is not supported. https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/issues/508 However, it should be supported since ripgrep v0.10.0 (2018-09-07) https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#0100-2018-09-07 See More

Specs

License:MIT/Unlicense

Supported platforms:Windows, MacOS, Linux

Written in:Rust

Top Pro

Lock-free parallel recursive directory search

Top Pro

Supports VCS ignore files

ripgrep can speed up by ignoring files matched by pattern in ".rgignore" (deprecated), ".ignore" (since rg-v0.2.0), and VCS ignore files (e.g., currently only ".gitignore"). See More

Top Pro

Speedy even with Unicode (UTF-8) searches

Top Pro

Fast

ripgrep has performance similar to raw grep but provides similar level of usability as The Silver Searcher or ACK. See More

Alacritty

Top Pro

Much faster than iTerm2 on Mac

Mac doesn't have the rich ecosystem of terminal emulators that Linux does, but Alacritty gives the same performance that you can expect from Linux in a Mac terminal. See More

RespectfulTelesphorus's Experience

Opens with huge font on my FHD screen, text only configuration extremely complicated and a misplaced space renders it bricked. See More

Specs

Font Ligatures:No

GPU Acceleration:Yes

Configurable:Yes, via automatically reloading YAML configuration file

Top Pro

Has support for image previews in w3m and ranger

Top Pro

Comprehensive font options

Alacritty can be configured to adjust line spacing (height), letter spacing (width), and individual character horizontal/vertical positions. See More

Top Pro

Looks good

Alacritty looks very slick on Linux, especially with GNOME or i3. See More

Top Pro

Blazing fast rendering with GPU-accelerated

Written in Rust with a philosophy focusing on speed and simplicity, Alacritty is one of the fastest terminal emulators out there. See More

Cargo

zoxide (smarter cd command)

Top Pro

Seamless integration with fzf

Exa (command line file list)

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