philnash, 8 months ago JavaScript’s regex engine isn’t the only one to have these problems. There certainly are other implementations, like Re2 and Rust’s implementation, that don’t have this issue. But they also lack some of the features of the JS implementation too.
JavaScript’s regex engine isn’t the only one to have these problems. There certainly are other implementations, like Re2 and Rust’s implementation, that don’t have this issue. But they also lack some of the features of the JS implementation too.