regexp VS rure-go

Compare regexp vs rure-go and see what are their differences.

regexp

Faster version of the Go regexp package (by grafana)

rure-go

Go bindings to Rust's regex engine. (by BurntSushi)
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regexp

Posts with mentions or reviews of regexp. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-03.
  • Go performance from version 1.2 to 1.18
    14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Feb 2022
    I have done some optimisations in Go regex recently; I have a talk coming up on Saturday:

    https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/event/go_finite_automata/

    This repo collects all the changes so you can try them out: https://github.com/grafana/regexp/tree/speedup#readme

rure-go

Posts with mentions or reviews of rure-go. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-26.
  • Best regexp alternative for Go. Benchmarks. Plots.
    8 projects | dev.to | 26 Aug 2023
    rure-go (regex 1.9.3) - uses the Rust regex engine with CGo bindings. The downside is a Rust library dependency that needs to be compiled;
  • Go performance from version 1.2 to 1.18
    14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Feb 2022
    Totally agreed: almost all users (me/GoAWK included) want performance and don't care nearly as much about simplicity under the hood. Simplicity of implementation is of value for educational purposes, but we could easily have a small, simple 3rd party package for that. Go's regexp package is kinda too complex for a simple educational demonstration and too simple to be fast. :-)

    I actually tried BurntSushi's https://github.com/BurntSushi/rure-go (bindings to Rust's regex engine) with GoAWK and it made regex handling 4-5x as fast for many regexes, despite the CGo overhead. However, rure-go (and CGo in general) is a bit painful to build, so I'm not going to use that. Maybe I'll create a branch for speed freaks who want it.

    I've also thought of using https://gitlab.com/cznic/ccgo to convert Mawk's fast regex engine to Go source and see how that performs. Maybe on the next rainy day...

What are some alternatives?

When comparing regexp and rure-go you can also consider the following projects:

hyperscan - High-performance regular expression matching library

ccgo

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

sqlc - Generate type-safe code from SQL

gomakeme - Generate boilerplate + endpoints for Fiber or Gin REST APIs.

gohs - GoLang Binding of HyperScan https://www.hyperscan.io/

Rocket - A web framework for Rust.

go - The Go programming language

esqueleto - Bare bones, type-safe EDSL for SQL queries on persistent backends.