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monochromegane
the_platinum_searcher
Go2014–2026
monochromegane / the_platinum_searcher

the_platinum_searcher

A code search tool similar to ack and the_silver_searcher(ag). It supports multi platforms and multi encodings.

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REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

A code search tool similar to ack and the_silver_searcher(ag). It supports multi platforms and multi encodings.

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Where it is used

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year13 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2014-04-09 09:44:51 UTC to 2026-03-24 13:20:44 UTC.

012342014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments20142015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 1 submissions, 3 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC413
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202

What Hacker News says

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mijoharas·Mar 24, 2026
I was just trying to remember why I switched _to_ rg. It's nice and everything, but I remember being happy with the tools before (I think i moved from grep to ack, then jumped due to perf to ag and for unremembered reasons to pt.) It took me a while, but I remembered I ran into an issue with pt incorrectly guessing the encoding of some files[0]. I can't remember whether rg suffered from the same issue or not, but I do know after switching to rg everything was plain sailing and I've been happy with it since. [0] https://github.com/monochromegane/the_platinum_searcher/issu...
In Ripgrep is faster than grep, ag, git grep, ucg, pt, sift (2016)
burntsushi·Jun 26, 2018
Indeed, I've actually written such a thing (although in Rust, not C++), I'm still looking for a clean concise version. :-) Here's the public API of mine[1], which is pretty blah, because it takes a closure (per-thread initialization) that must return a closure (executed on each entry in the tree). The most interesting part of the implementation is here[2], along with a suspicious termination argument. Outside of that, ucg (written in C++) also has a recursive directory iterator.[3] I also know of two written in Go, one in sift[4] and another in the platinum searcher[5]. The ones in Go seem considerably simpler as they fall back to goroutines. I haven't carefully benchmarked all of these, but if memory serves, they're all faster than the single threaded variants. In my experience, the hardest part about implementing this is coming up with
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a solid termination argument because your consumers are also your producers. (I documented this a bit in `get_work` in my Rust code.) [1] - https://docs.rs/ignore/0.4.2/ignore/struct.WalkParallel.html [2] - https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/b38b101c77003fb94... [3] - https://github.com/gvansickle/ucg/blob/master/src/libext/Dir... [4] - https://github.com/svent/sift/blob/2ca94717ef0bbf43068f217c8... [5] - https://github.com/monochromegane/the_platinum_searcher/blob...
In Examples of Parallel Algorithms from C++17

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