Ripgrep vs grep: Why Switch

Ripgrep is dramatically faster.

Speed

10-100x faster on large codebases.

Multi-threaded by default.

Smart defaults

Skips .gitignore'd files. Skips binary files.

Most of what you want, faster.

When grep wins

Portable scripts. grep is everywhere; rg might not be installed.

Default to rg interactively; grep in scripts.