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		db48x on Sept 3, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Greppability is an underrated code metric True, but IDEs are fragile tools. Sometimes you want to fall back to simpler tools that will always work, and grep is not fragile.

cxr on Sept 3, 2024 [–]

The basis if this article (and its forebear "Too DRY - The Grep Test"[1]) is that grep is fragile. It's just fragile in a way that's different from the way that IDEs are fragile.

1. <http://jamie-wong.com/2013/07/12/grep-test/>

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