Burntsushi. Because of your blog post on ripgrep I found a love that I did not know I had (I am just a lowly self-taught frontend developer). I had no idea you could do magic like this with code, and that it could be that interesting. It made all the right wheels in my head spin and it was, and is, love.
I am going back to university (a place a swore never to return to) to learn about algorithms and algorithmic design, starting next Monday. Because of you.
Nobody has had this big an influence on my career, and every time I hit `rg` on my computer I do so with immense gratitude.
...or are using your work without you or them knowing. E.g., just the other day I added the fst crate as a dependency to do longest prefix searches on a set of word/continuation pieces [1]. Similarly, we use fst in a word lemmatization tool that is used to lemmatize billions of tokens.
I am going back to university (a place a swore never to return to) to learn about algorithms and algorithmic design, starting next Monday. Because of you.
Nobody has had this big an influence on my career, and every time I hit `rg` on my computer I do so with immense gratitude.
Just thought you should know.