I cannot understand all that amount of excitement. Are we under heavy fanbot attack or am I missing something? If the whole thing is that, is faster than grep and "in Rust we Trust" then please feel free to ignore my comment.

I would use OSX's slow grep every single day to find things and I never had any of the non-problems problems which ripgrep is trying to solve. About recursive, case insensitive and search and file number just use grep with the flags "-Rni", so I don't get in which aspect is superior. I never ever had half a thought about grep's performance at the systems I use it (already faster than my cognitive bottle neck). If I ever would need something better than grep I would try to move to the next level or deal with lots of unstructured data I would perhaps move to a local search engine using indexes.

And personally I would consider an antipattern to skip the gitignore contents per default. What kind of machines or use cases are hitting the people in the comments?