How I built a VS Code extension that draws Railroad diagrams for regex and catches ReDoS

It started with frustration. I write code every day. And every time I need a regex more complex than \d+, the same thing happens: I open my browser, go to a website, type the pattern, test it, copy it back to the editor. An hour later — again. And so on in a loop. The problem isn't that tools don't exist. The problem is they're not where I work. I... Weiterlesen