rust VS regex

Compare rust vs regex and see what are their differences.

rust

Rust for the xtensa architecture. Built in targets for the ESP32 and ESP8266 (by esp-rs)

regex

An implementation of regular expressions for Rust. This implementation uses finite automata and guarantees linear time matching on all inputs. (by rust-lang)
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rust regex
7 91
708 3,336
1.3% 1.8%
0.0 9.1
about 1 month ago 14 days ago
Rust Rust
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later Apache License 2.0
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rust

Posts with mentions or reviews of rust. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-07.

regex

Posts with mentions or reviews of regex. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-24.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing rust and regex you can also consider the following projects:

zig - General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.

re2 - modern regular expression syntax everywhere with a painless upgrade path [Moved to: https://github.com/SonOfLilit/kleenexp]

Elixir - Elixir is a dynamic, functional language for building scalable and maintainable applications

node-re2 - node.js bindings for RE2: fast, safe alternative to backtracking regular expression engines.

Nim - Nim is a statically typed compiled systems programming language. It combines successful concepts from mature languages like Python, Ada and Modula. Its design focuses on efficiency, expressiveness, and elegance (in that order of priority).

scala - Scala 2 compiler and standard library. Bugs at https://github.com/scala/bug; Scala 3 at https://github.com/scala/scala3

ngrams - (Read-only) Generate n-grams

odbc-api - ODBC (Open Database Connectivity) bindings for Rust.

regex-benchmark - It's just a simple regex benchmark of different programming languages.

tonic - A native gRPC client & server implementation with async/await support.

whatlang-rs - Natural language detection library for Rust. Try demo online: https://whatlang.org/