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When comparing sift vs The Platinum Searcher (pt), the Slant community recommends sift for most people. In the question“What are the best open source tools for searching source code?” sift is ranked 6th while The Platinum Searcher (pt) is ranked 10th. The most important reason people chose sift is:
Supports Linux, Windows, OSX, and several BSDs.
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LicenseMIT
Supported platformsLinux, macOS, Windows
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Pros
Pro Cross-platform
Supports Linux, Windows, OSX, and several BSDs.
Pro Fast
Pro Works with Atom
Pro Fully configurable
Can define specific configuration in each directory using .ptconfig.toml
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Pro Golang
Writing fully in Go.
Pro Very fast
3–5× faster than ack. Slightly faster than ag.
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