Some algorithm improvements ripgrep uses could be brought into grep, but ripgrep at its core just operates differently. It uses threads by default, assumes unic

Some algorithm improvements ripgrep uses could be brought into grep, but ripgrep at its core just operates differently. It uses threads by default, assumes unicode, has a completely different regex engine, amongst other things. It could also probably be argued that some things from ripgrep would be pretty difficult to port from Rust to C or C++ safely. burntsushi has a blog post on it here: https://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep/ https://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep/