[petdance]

> I do not know of a competitor who has put the care into such a tool to even try to measure, though.

As an aside, I'm the author of ack, and I would ask that folks not use the word "competitor" to describe different projects in the same space. Speaking for me/ack and burntsushi/ripgrep, there is absolutely no competition between us. We have different projects that do similar things, and neither of us is trying to best the other. We are each trying to make the best project we can for the needs we are looking to fill. ripgrep won't replace ack, ack won't replace ripgrep, and neither one will replace plain ol' grep. Each has its place.

I believe this so strongly that I created a [feature comparison chart](https://beyondgrep.com/feature-comparison/) comparing various greplike tools, and a related blog post I wrote on this: [The best open source project for someone might not be yours, and that's OK](https://blog.petdance.com/2018/01/02/the-best-open-source-pr...)