Author of ripgrep here. I never saw it as a "rewrite": https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/11updi0/introducing_rewriteitnet_a_collection_of_software/jcppsoi/

Author of ripgrep here. I never saw it as a "rewrite": https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/11updi0/introducing_rewriteitnet_a_collection_of_software/jcppsoi/ https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/11updi0/introducing_r... You might think of it as NIH, but I didn't at the time that I wrote it. Because I saw a gap in the ecosystem that wasn't being filled. grep didn't offer the UX of a tool like ag, and ag didn't degrade gracefully to behave like a grep. (And also wasn't as fast on single file search.) That gap is what motivated me to turn ripgrep from what it was (a test bed for Rust's regex crate) into what it is now. There's a reason why you basically never see me criticizing people about "NIH." Because it's actually quite difficult to accurately cast that criticism. Saying things are NIH is like saying things are broken. It's terribly overused.