> edit: to those who're saying ripgrep is more than grep. First, I know. Second, wouldn't it be great if someone could rewrite ripgrep in C? Now I'm really curi

> edit: to those who're saying ripgrep is more than grep. First, I know. Second, wouldn't it be great if someone could rewrite ripgrep in C? Now I'm really curious to find out the code-size complexity of all the ripgrep features backported to grep. I'd be shocked if a C version measured fewer LoC without resorting to some real dark art pointer magic.