Trying to get ack or ag working properly on Windows is a bit of a pain. Now there’s an equivalent in Rust, rg, and I can get something that’s mostly superior to these others with `cargo install rg`. (OK, so I had to have installed Rust first. But I had done that.)
You always have to install something or it must exist first. Node, FCC, clang, Ruby, Python... you just need to think of rustup as the the equivalent of getting you rust compiler environment setup.