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rhymes

ripgrep makes a real difference, especially with a large codebase. I'm not surprised VSCode integrated it for its search. I can literally see the difference between grepping with ripgrep and grep on the DEV's codebase. BTW they kind have the same options so there's no re-learning there.

I've aliased exa to ls and forgotten about it.

I've ditched httpie because it's completely different from curl.

I use hub everyday because I review tons of PRs and it saves a lot of typing :D

I tried bat for a while months ago but it's not that useful so I ditched it.

The rest seem very specific, not particularly interesting :D

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Florian Rand

Hey @rhymes , yeah, ripgrep is wonderful.

I use httpie because of its simplicity but not as substitution of curl. In my opinion, in terms of versatility curl is ahead of httpie.

tig and ranger are a nice addition, but I admit that I don't use them a lot.

I tried exa but after a few hours found the coloured output annoying. Weird, I know.

But I agree, depending on your background and needs, some of them can be more interesting than others, or not interesting at all.