Nope, and its author (burntsushi) doesn’t think[1,2] you can do a practical regex matcher on top of the techinque. I’m not sure I agree with him, but, well, he’

Nope, and its author (burntsushi) doesn’t think[1,2] you can do a practical regex matcher on top of the techinque. I’m not sure I agree with him, but, well, he’s built a production engine and I haven’t. (There’s a thing called “partial derivatives”, which is to Brzozowski derivatives as NFAs are to DFAs, but it doesn’t interact well with intersection and negation if you want to support those.) [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31693927 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31693927 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31693559 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31693559