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The main use of ripgrep for me is that it's not posix and therefore its interface is not terrible



Haha I actually like the interfaces of most POSIX compliant tools. But maybe I've not looked to critically at the interfaces. Do you have any examples that are particularly bad in your opinion?


`find`. Every part of that interface is terrible. Thank goodness for fd




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