What do you mean by a "invested in a Perl workflow"? Do you mean "comfortable with Perl regexes"?
Other reasons that you may want to use ack:
* You want to define your own filetypes
* You want to define your own output using Perl regexes
* You need the portability of an uncompiled tool in a single source file that you can drop into your ~/bin when you can't install or compile anything on the box.
* You don't want to have to deal with a Rust runtime.
Other reasons that you may want to use ack:
* You want to define your own filetypes
* You want to define your own output using Perl regexes
* You need the portability of an uncompiled tool in a single source file that you can drop into your ~/bin when you can't install or compile anything on the box.
* You don't want to have to deal with a Rust runtime.