Ha, the regex approach is honestly how a lot of people start with this problem and you can get surprisingly far with it until you hit the edge cases around alia

Ha, the regex approach is honestly how a lot of people start with this problem and you can get surprisingly far with it until you hit the edge cases around aliased imports, re-exports, and nested scopes where things start falling apart. That's basically why we went with tree-sitter under the hood it gives you the actual parse tree so you don't have to keep patching regex patterns for every new language construct.