Oniguruma alternative

[xfgusta]

Sadly, the Oniguruma project has ended. It's still a bit early, but we should start looking for alternatives (or consider removing it entirely in the future). I’m opening this issue to keep track of that.

[tavianator]

That's disappointing, thanks for the heads up!

[tavianator]

If no one takes over Oniguruma maintainership (I assume Ruby still needs a regex engine?), I'll consider switching to something like PCRE or TRE. Open to suggestions though!

[cstrahan]

Ruby switched from oniguruma to onigmo (a fork of oniguruma) in Ruby 2.0, released 24 February 2013.

With very few documented exceptions excepted, onigmo should provide a superset of of the functionality provided by oniguruma.

My recommendation would be to give onigmo a go.

[tavianator]

I avoided Onigmo originally because Wikipedia says

Onigmo is no longer being updated

which seems roughly correct (no releases since 2019).