FWIW, the regex engine in ripgrep is entirely pluggable and abstracted (to an extent). It's how it seamlessly supports both PCRE2 and my own regex engine. It w

FWIW, the regex engine in ripgrep is entirely pluggable and abstracted (to an extent). It's how it seamlessly supports both PCRE2 and my own regex engine. It would be an interesting project to add Hyperscan support to it. You would get all the extra goop you mention for free. I would be happy to give guidance on that if anyone's interested.