If I had to succinctly put my finger on it, I would say: it's "new wave" because it doesn't search everything by default. Of course, ripgrep wasn't the first to do that, but maybe is the first to do it while retaining competitiveness with GNU grep.
Of course, what's "new wave" to one person might be "mild evolutionary step" to another. (And perhaps even "evolutionary" implies too much, because not everyone sees smart filtering by default as a good thing.)
I would say 90% of how ripgrep works is based on long standing Unix tooling. "Smart" filtering by default is certainly not in the Unix tradition, but to say ripgrep has nothing to do with Unix is just wrong.
To be honest, I don't really know what you're after here. It is fine to say that the "new wave" is not rooted in Unix, but that doesn't mean its inaccurate to call ripgrep a Unix tool.
I am after there is nothing about new wave UNIX to talk about, unless we are now supposed to start talking about Rust and ripgrep adoption at Open Group.
No, that's what you think new wave UNIX is. This strikes me as just pedantic nonsense to me. You don't need to go around policing what "new wave" is supposed to mean to everyone.
Yup, ripgrep (and ack before it) is definitely a new style! Doesn't mean it has nothing to do with Unix, or that "new wave Unix" is itself inaccurate or nonsensical.
When you start quoting the dictionary to prove a point, maybe it's time to take a step back.
It has no concrete specific definition as far as I'm aware. It's just a colloquial phrase to distinguish it from something that has been around for a long time, while also drawing focus to its similarities.
I think you should read 'new wave unix' as 'new programs used by people that spend a lot of time on the CLI, replacing programs they used before that were most of the time very old and unchanged for quite some time, so not in line with "modern" expectations'. A good example is fd, which works like find but is more intuitive to me (and to many other people): you use fd PATTERN instead of find -name PATTERN or something.
