I love how you continue to ignore the fact that ired produces incorrect results. Also: You can use -F to make the argument to ripgrep be interpreted as a lite

I love how you continue to ignore the fact that ired produces incorrect results. Also: You can use -F to make the argument to ripgrep be interpreted as a literal. No knowledge of regex is needed. It's a standard grep flag. You also aren't using PCRE. You're using ripgrep's default engine, which is the regex crate. You need to pass -P to use PCRE2. Although I don't see the point in doing so. I find your overall comparison here to be disengenuous personally. You can't even be arsed to acknowledge that ired returns incorrect results. And every benchmark I've run has shown ripgrep to be faster or just as fast. There's no jank. I already acknowledged that the rg binary is beefy. It is actually statically linked by default (although it may dynamically link C libraries). I don't care if rg is 5MB. If you do, then rg isn't for you. You can keep using broken software instead.