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by silverwind 124 days ago
ReDoS is a bug in the regex engine. Still, V8 etc. seem to refuse to provide a ReDoS-safe regex engine by default.
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Is the possibility to write an infinite loop in your language of choice a bug?
Most regex usage actually doesnt require near infinite backtracking, so limited unless opted in wouldn’t be that weird.