[Areading314]

myself am partial to silver searcher (brew install ag)

[echelon]

ripgrep is a faster and newer alternative with many ergonomic improvements.

The lineage is grep (C, 1973) -> ack (Perl, ~2006) -> ag (C, ~2011) -> rg (Rust, ~2016)

Ack inspired a wave of tool rewrites to accommodate better interfaces and usability.