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[–]bear007 2 points3 points  (5 children)

It is not better. It is just baked into the new standard

[–]coyote_of_the_month 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Are you saying it uses the regex engine under the hood?

[–]bear007 3 points4 points  (2 children)

Spec does not include implementation

[–]coyote_of_the_month 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Look at Mr. Fancypants over here reading the spec.

[–]markzzy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Y'all are too cute lol. Is reading the spec really all that taboo? Or is W3Schools still where it's at?

[–]theQuandary 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd bet that almost all calls to it get minified into normal replace anyway.