GNU grep is fast as well but by default it doesn't ignore anything. Granted it's handy to have this configured out of the box, but I prefer to know and use the

GNU grep is fast as well but by default it doesn't ignore anything. Granted it's handy to have this configured out of the box, but I prefer to know and use the flags and perhaps write a shell script wrapper, and I find that practically it feels just as fast as rg or others. My main point in doing this is to avoid the situation where I'm on a different machine to my laptop and can just get going right away without having to install anything. There's a trade off in all things, I just prefer it this way.