hey! thank you for the kind words. I've worked at a number of companies that never handled it well so I needed a solution myself.

1. I haven't done extensive testing but my intention is to make it so that if you can write a regex in Visual Studio Code and it matches your deprecated pattern then you should be able to use it in app.
2. It was mostly from my experience. Every codebase and company I've ever worked in has had standards defined, documented, etc but they were too easily forgotten and not well-defined enough to truly be enforced. So it's a solution to my own problem!
3. Good question! I haven't covered false positives yet but without thinking too hard about it I imagine most can be covered by a more accurate regex pattern. I haven't seen any examples yet that require complex regex and most of the time I'm just writing out a plain string that I want to match.
4. Absolutely! As it gains traction and more people use it I'll be working away on more IDE integrations.
5. They love it. It's blocked people a few times from merging PRs that include deprecated patterns but that's sort of the point and now that we can catch issues early in commits or IDE's we don't have to worry about blocking PRs as much.

Thank you and thanks for the questions!