Slightly off-topic: BurntSushi wrote a Go binding[1] for the Rust regex engine[2] (he is also the author) which shares the same approach (finite automata) but h

Slightly off-topic: BurntSushi wrote a Go binding[1] for the Rust regex engine[2] (he is also the author) which shares the same approach (finite automata) but has a more polished, highly optimized implementation. It could be useful in some scenario for people facing performance issues with Go's regex engine. [1] https://github.com/BurntSushi/rure-go https://github.com/BurntSushi/rure-go [2] https://github.com/rust-lang/regex https://github.com/rust-lang/regex