sift VS ack3

Compare sift vs ack3 and see what are their differences.

sift

A fast and powerful alternative to grep (by svent)

ack3

ack is a grep-like search tool optimized for source code. (by beyondgrep)
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sift ack3
2 21
1,592 665
- 2.1%
0.0 4.3
about 2 years ago 23 days ago
Go Perl
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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sift

Posts with mentions or reviews of sift. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-08.

ack3

Posts with mentions or reviews of ack3. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-18.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing sift and ack3 you can also consider the following projects:

fzf.vim - fzf :heart: vim

ripgrep - ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore

the_silver_searcher - A code-searching tool similar to ack, but faster.

website - The source code for the beyondgrep.com website

net-amqp-rabbitmq - Perl bindings to the librabbitmq-c AMQP library.

ttygif - Convert terminal recordings to animated gifs

autobots - ⚡️ Scripts & dotfiles for automation and/or bootstrapping new system setup

perl5 - 🐪 The Perl programming language

exiftool - ExifTool meta information reader/writer

advent - individual solutions at AoC

adventofcode - Solutions for problems from AdventOfCode.com

adventofcode - Advent of Code solutions of 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 in Scala