Building a regex debugger for the terminal in Rust (opens in new tab)

Cross-post from: I built rgx, a terminal regex debugger written in Rust. The v0.12.3 release is out today. Here's what's in it and why I built it the way I did. The problem I write regex-heavy code in terminal-centric workflows — SSH sessions, containers, scripts that pipe data around. Every time I needed to debug a pattern, I'd break flow to open a browser, tab over to regex101.com, paste in the pattern and test string, iterate, copy the pattern back, close the tab. The gap isn't just conven...