I made a regex visualizer/debugger which lets you visually understand the finite state machine representation of a regular expression And added gratuitous explosions and particle effects of course Made with Zig + sokol
@zack_overflow largely distracting - but being able to step through it in a cleaner way would be nice
@zack_overflow Looks so cool ! Which lang. did you write the shaders in ?
@zack_overflow For when you need to debug a regex but also need a little hit of dopamine.
@zack_overflow this guy gets juice it or lose it
@zack_overflow super cool way to animate regexp fsms
@zack_overflow I’m not sure what you use as a backend, but a power move would be running “use re ‘debug’;” from Perl in a sandbox. That tool was powerful enough to debug extended regexes generating their own code in runtime. I used it to homebrew a polysaccharide substructure matcher.
@zack_overflow Satisfying effects and sounds will distinguish apps in the age of llm slop
@zack_overflow Can it visualize the entire execution of a TextMate grammar highlighting a file? Can I make it play in the statusbar of VSCode like some sort of unbelievably autistic winamp plugin?
@zack_overflow oh, so regex' are implemented via state machines! Didn't know that, thank you
@zack_overflow Not enough gratuitous explosions in software these days.
@zack_overflow this is need but I need a utilitarian mode
@zack_overflow How would it go on a regex of about half a megabyte in size? Basically a very compressed "is this word a member of this dictionary" regex.
