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		silverwind 72 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Turn Dependabot off ReDoS is a bug in the regex engine. Still, V8 etc. seem to refuse to provide a ReDoS-safe regex engine by default.

ZiiS 72 days ago [–]

Is the possibility to write an infinite loop in your language of choice a bug?

talkin 72 days ago | [–]

Most regex usage actually doesnt require near infinite backtracking, so limited unless opted in wouldn’t be that weird.

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