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Thanks, David Peter

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199 pointschmaynard17 comments

I couln't agree more. I have had the pleasure to work alongside David for the past couple of years. His passion for sharing knowledge, expertise and code has not only benefited our team, but is a great inspiration to everyone around him! What's visible in open source is only the tip of the iceberg ;)

Thank you for the kind words Martin. I hope we can continue this journey in the next couple of years :-)

For folks looking for more of "modern + useful CLI tools that happen to be written in Rust a lot of the time", there's this list from Julia Evans (which features all the sharkdp tools from this article as well): https://jvns.ca/blog/2022/04/12/a-list-of-new-ish--command-l...

Wow, very nice surprise to find this on the HN frontpage, posted by someone else no less! I guess I'm not the only person who reads my blog after all ;)

Thanks chmaynard - and sharkdp!

I usually follow HN closely, but I would have probably missed it, if I hadn't received notifications from friends on three different channels. Thank you very much for writing the post!

Thanks, sharkdp, as well as burntsushi. First thing I do on any machine I work with is to install all their tools.

They are reliable, they have excellent defaults and have made me more productive.

I also recommend them on a regular basis.

Always neat to discover that multiple high-quality tools you discovered separately are all written by the same person. I use both bat and hyperfine regularly and had no idea. Now, knowing to look up the author, I've learned about insect and hexyl too!

Fabrice Bellard, klauspost, and bradfitz are three prior examples of this that spring to mind. I'm sure there are plenty more I haven't noticed yet.

Sincerely, thanks to the people who make contributions like this.

Precisely. The “made in rust“ tagline might sound cliché, but when the tools are as good as these ones I start to pay attention!

So many unsung heros in the open-source space, while it's so easy to forget people who worked hard on the tool you just used.

On this note, I've actually used hyperfine a while back for some quick benchmarking - thanks to David and other contributors for bringing it to live and continuously maintaining it!

I will say thank you as well. I support these projects on GH.

I met him in person years ago. Well-deserved praise!

Thanks Holger. I have fond memories of the BWInf times!

I had no idea who David Peter was but drilled in and saw "sharkdp" and was like, YES! THANK YOU SO MUCH!

I love the work he has done and glad I clicked into this even though I never learned his real name.

That's a very good point - I should add sharkdp to the title!

Love hyperfine, really practical and informative

Obligatory XKCD https://xkcd.com/2347/

I have seen this enough times that I now remember that comic by its number

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