Honestly: I rely on my shell scripts working and any "grep replacement" has to work with all the old crusty shell scripts out there, likely including ones that use odd "quirks" and GNU options.
If you want to innovate in this space, why sign up for all that? Invent a better wheel, and if people like it, they'll migrate over time.
I remember using ag in the old days, and I use rg now. But there's things rg does by default that I don't like at times... so I go back to old fashioned grep.
rg is at the point where many programmers use it. I think it is on its way to becoming one of those "standard tools". It needs... another 5 years?
When POSIX has a rg standard... we'll know ripgrep "succeeded" and teargrep will soon come into existence ;)
If you want to innovate in this space, why sign up for all that? Invent a better wheel, and if people like it, they'll migrate over time.
I remember using ag in the old days, and I use rg now. But there's things rg does by default that I don't like at times... so I go back to old fashioned grep.
rg is at the point where many programmers use it. I think it is on its way to becoming one of those "standard tools". It needs... another 5 years?
When POSIX has a rg standard... we'll know ripgrep "succeeded" and teargrep will soon come into existence ;)