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.

  • refalo@programming.dev
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    1 month 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