Russ Cox Uses This

<i>I lost interest in having the new shiny a long time ago. [..] At home that means a refurbished Mac Mini from 2006, a used Dell 2001FP 20" LCD from 2004 [..]</i><p>Is this "one of those things" that happens as you get older? To my own surprise, I've drifted into the "can't deal with the boom-boom music on the radio" zone just as my parents did in their 30s.. So will "new shinies are boring" be next? I better start stocking up on Apple gear ;-)

I can vouch for re2 - if you need to run a lot of regexps, or run user-supplied regexps, or run non-trivial regexps on user-supplied arbitrary data, re2 will save your application from certain death if you use pcre. Google "catastrophic backtracking" if you don't believe me.<p>Also, even though it doesn't say that Russ uses it, he probably must one way or the other working at Google, I highly recommend another google code project - protobuf.

I know this isn't a tech support forum, but in a fit of lunacy I figured I'd give Acme a try last night (the Acme-SAC version) and after using it for an hour of so I can't even figure out how to open a text file (it seems like it has its own virtual directory structure that I can't seem to navigate out of).<p>Anybody here successfully using Acme for coding?

<i>"I use Unison to sync files between my various computers. Dropbox seems to be the hot new thing, but I like that Unison doesn't ever store my files on someone else's computers."</i>

I was intrigued by the sam editor. Anyone here using it?

tl;dr. Russ dogfoods.