# Projectile

5 Hacker News commenters recommended Projectile and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 4 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** An Emacs package for project management that lets people move quickly between projects and find files within them. One critic reports that file search with ripgrep becomes very slow.

## Why people recommend it

- Quick switching between projects (1 comments): "allows me to quickly move between different projects" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46859088))
- Project management in Emacs (1 comments): "projectile (project management)" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45856085))
- Works in Doom Emacs workflows (1 comments): "I use agent-shell with Projectile on Doom Emacs as my main workflow" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48717695))
- Valued alongside flycheck and ivy (1 comments): "features that I've come to know and love (like projectile, flycheck, ivy" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48547543))

## What people warn about

- Slow file search with ripgrep (1 comments): "projectile-find-file, ripgrep gets super slow" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47331847))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Evil mode for Emacs](https://hackerapproved.com/p/evil-mode.md): 39 recommend
- [TRAMP for Emacs](https://hackerapproved.com/p/tramp.md): 25 recommend
- [SLIME](https://hackerapproved.com/p/slime.md): 19 recommend
- [Vertico](https://hackerapproved.com/p/vertico.md): 18 recommend
- [Eglot](https://hackerapproved.com/p/eglot.md): 16 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Projectile", https://hackerapproved.com/p/projectile/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).