Moving to a different set of quirks is not a step forward than continuing to use the ones you know. Regexes aren't de-facto standard; grep is different to egrep to perl to python to C++ to your text editor to whatever. It's a massive pain and annoying as fudge. You're a programmer you know this. A "superior" set of quirks may be better for new regex users but it is worse for everyone else who now has to know both grep (and all the other regex quirks) and ripgrep if they're going to use it. To get this done like I always have I now need to know something new. A new user doesn't care about the obsolete.
Faster? Well I have not yet experienced an issue with the speed of grep, that's my experience. I can imagine this could be compelling for uses I don't know about.
ripgrep may well be a better grep for some users. And that is Great, really! We should all try and make things better! Hurrah!
Refusing to describe how it is different and why you might like to install something non-standard (for which there could be compelling reasons) is just silly. Hyping anything at all in that context like that looks pretty bad.
The ratio of content-free hype (omg ripgrep is fantistic!) to an actual description on this thread or in the link or seemingly anywhere I clicked is pretty bad and constitutes a signal.
