If you only search small corpora, then ripgrep's speed benefits obviously don't matter. There's unlikely to be material differentiation among grep tools in those cases. So it's a priori not a concern for you.
ripgrep has other benefits, but they aren't quite as universally compelling as its speed benefits. For example, when searching large corpora, pretty much everyone is going to appreciate a search taking 1 second vs 10 seconds. But many fewer people are going to appreciate, say, automatic transcoding from UTF-16 in order to search data.
Other than that, ripgrep's "smart" filtering by default would be its main benefit. My first link above address that.
What does the "rip" in ripgrep mean? Not "rest in peace." See: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/master/FAQ.md#wha...
If you only search small corpora, then ripgrep's speed benefits obviously don't matter. There's unlikely to be material differentiation among grep tools in those cases. So it's a priori not a concern for you.
ripgrep has other benefits, but they aren't quite as universally compelling as its speed benefits. For example, when searching large corpora, pretty much everyone is going to appreciate a search taking 1 second vs 10 seconds. But many fewer people are going to appreciate, say, automatic transcoding from UTF-16 in order to search data.
Other than that, ripgrep's "smart" filtering by default would be its main benefit. My first link above address that.