Doug Richardson

Nothing really to add to the solution, but in case future me stumbles on this perf issue again, I found this PowerShell snippet useful for comparing gvim and nvim-qt startup...

Grep is relatively slow. It doesn't matter if you're searching a small directory, but it adds up on large projects. There are a lot of comparisons of the various tools,...

> > > @drichardson Just a quick note: `sift` won't respect your `.gitignore` files by default, where as ripgrep will. If you pass `--git` to `sift` (or `--no-ignore` to ripgrep),...

As @ivan pointed out, listening on localhost wouldn't address all the problems, but it is better than listening on all interfaces like is happening now. The machine I'm using now,...

Oh right, good point. Still, I think it'd be worthwhile to change the gen_tcp options to only listen on localhost, as this would prevent the most obvious remote attacks.

LGTM

I'm also seeing this. Link to forum discussion: https://www.sidefx.com/forum/topic/61174/

I have about 5 minutes more experience than you do. You saw I pinged a couple of Niagara devs on twitter for their input, hopefully they respond.

I put a [post in the UE4 rendering forum](https://forums.unrealengine.com/development-discussion/rendering/1571458-niagara-prefixes-for-ue4-style-guide) to try to elicit more feedback.

I'm using Niagara for a project now, so I'll try living on option 3 and see how it goes.