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by zomglings 1718 days ago
This comes nowhere close to eliminating the utility of grep, especially in large code bases.

Grep helps you search for things in comments and in documentation. It allows you to conveniently ignore files and directories.

Grep and related tooling contain decades worth of insight and wisdom (in a decades-old field) that we should not be so quick to dismiss.