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		robinduckett on May 17, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop ... VSCode uses the same c++ based regex parser for syntax highlighting as TextMate, Sublime, Atom, etc

karlding on May 17, 2020 [–]

For anyone interested, this is the Oniguruma [0] regex library written by K. Kosako. It's also used in Ruby and PHP.

[0] https://github.com/kkos/oniguruma

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