Ack is an amazing program, but the dependency on Perl is annoying, especially on Windows. C++ 14 should have everything we need to implement Ack in standard and portable C++.
Although, it looks like is C++ 17, not C++ 14. It appears that recent gcc release have it, and Visual Studio 13 does.
- catch.hpp unit tests
- Documentation
- Complete language types
- Config from rc, environment variables
- Change arguments from multiple patterns to
- CMake build instead of .bat file
- Add --type= options in addition to --type option