feature with absolutely enormous cost of ownership and negative externalities: PCRE
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get rid of it. make regexes only recognise regular languages. please
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approximately nobody uses the non-regular features of PCRE, and their mere existence means regex engines all use an algorithm that's vulnerable to ReDoS which affects things people write every day. get rid of it
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Replying to @mountain_ghosts
You will like the Rust regex crate
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