mark@feddit.uktoTechnology@beehaw.org•KBin has taken over Lemmy in monthly active users countEnglish
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1 year agoA lot of people seem to be talking about whether PHP has enough developer support, but that isn’t the main issue.
The issue is that code written in PHP is probably at least 10 times less efficient in terms of CPU and memory than the equivalent code written in Rust.
This means that loads of hobbyist developers will be able to run lemmy instances for a fraction of the ongoing cost of kbin.
If you are serious about working in a terminal, then I highly recommend learning modern replacements for the old tools.
In this case
ripgrep
(orrg
) https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep is phenomenal. Especially for searching recursively in a large directory tree it is unbelievably quicker than regulargrep
.It won’t be installed on any random machine, so
grep
is still useful, but if you regularly need to text search in files then there are better tools.