Announcing rippkgs: searching nixpkgs in under 30 milliseconds

Hey all! I’m excited to announce the release of rippkgs, a new CLI for searching nixpkgs. Let me know what you think and enjoy!

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Super sick, y’all. Kudos!

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Congrats on the release!!

(It also seems like there may be a typo in the announcement: “We also incorporated ripples”)

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This looks great! Are you planning on open sourcing the command-not-found handler?

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Are you planning on open sourcing the command-not-found handler?

not quite yet - right now all of our environment management is in our monorepo. we’re looking to change up how we do environment management though which we agree would be a perfect opportunity to share some more of this tech :slight_smile:

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Am I missing something, where is the default.nix so I can install this w/o using flakes?

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Is there a prebuilt database available like for nix-index GitHub - nix-community/nix-index-database: Weekly updated nix-index database [maintainer=@Mic92] ?