What does GNU find provides that I can't get from a wrapper around Perl?

- It frees you from writing the wrapper (duh)

- It probably have more niceties than a 5min wrapper (color, friendly defaults, etc.)

I've personally used a homemade find wrapper for years, but have now replaced it with `fd` (another find reimplementation). The advantages isn't huge, but I find the niceties I never bothered implementing - well - nice :)

That being said: I did get burned by the default behavior of ignoring hidden files :D

Would've been nice if it by default didn't show hidden matches, but printed on stderr - something like:

    $ fd thing
    foo/something
    ...
    >searching hidden files - ^C to abort<
    >hidden files found (29) - use `--hidden` to show<

If nothing else - ability to easily compile for native Windows and work as expected (with no Cygwin/GnuWin32 fun).

It might also be valuable to projects like Redox.

Related discussion - https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/av31ae/ff_find_files_....

probably nothing, is that a problem?

Not a problem, but it's still a valid question. I'm all for people writing alternatives to existing tools. I've done so myself multiple times. But when you start promoting your alternative, "so what's does it do better?" is a very reasonable question for other people to ask. After all, they are the ones who need to invest time in learning the new tool, perhaps add it as a dependency in their tool chain/work flow - with all the downsides that has.

The readme states it is ~3 to 5 times faster. And it seems to have a more beginner friendly syntax.

I am not aperson who just has to use the newest and gratest for the sake of it, but I’d take ripgrep/rg over grep whenever I have the choice.