| 00:47 | <ljharb> | all the regex symbols are a monstrosity :-( |
| 02:39 | <bakkot> | have you considered just introducing more bugs, instead of fixing the bug |
| 02:39 | <bakkot> | if there's enough incompatible bugs across all the engines then no one will use it and we can rip it out |
| 07:43 | <littledan> | Yeah it would be pretty great if someone could try ripping out the stuff about replacing exec. But as of 2016-ish it turned out people actually did replace it. But probably just silly polyfills and xregexp |
| 07:43 | <littledan> | And when those were written, they didn’t expect to get called into by replace |
| 07:43 | <littledan> | So it is just like the case that Mozilla looked into a little bit and then decided it wasn’t worth their time to look further |