You’ve saved me tens if not hundreds of hours with ripgrep, and I’ve become a huge evangelist of it at my workplace. When I’m helping someone understand how to debug customer issues, the first thing I tell them is to install ripgrep. Truly a fantastic piece of software.
Amazing work on rg!
Truly the Unix philosophy at it's finest. It's the only way I search JSON these days! (or YAML with "yq | gron | rg" to get results, pop into (n)vim and to my thing :)
2. Auto ignores .gitignore files, so does not search node_modules or build/ etc., huge noise reduction there.
3. -t/-T gates on file extension which is a very nice feature, again signal to noise
4. The combo of speed and the above and the recursive-by-default mean that you search much larger corpuses by default, like “all the microservices in the cluster” or “my entire home dir”, because you know it's some .xml file mentioning “jackson” where you saw this config you need before.
5. For some reason I never remember which regex features are grep vs egrep, so I end up just testing on a bunch of strings to see if I have to like backslash the plus operator or whatever. With rg it's like “oh this is going to have the same syntax as JS regex.”
6. Unicode compatibility by default could save you that sort of time maybe on specific workloads?