There are already a few regexp features in the pipeline, see
https://github.com/goyakin/es-regexp (listed in the Stage 0 proposals at
https://github.com/tc39/proposals/blob/master/stage-0-proposals.md).

The list of proposed features is not complete yet[1], though they already
cover some main itches ECMAScript's implementation is currently missing.

Sebastian

[1] Some missing features are listed at
http://www.regular-expressions.info/javascript.html

On 17 June 2016 at 18:19, Brian Jemilo II <[email protected]> wrote:

> Javascript regexp is based on a subset of perl's regexp engine, but its
> missing a lot of features that would make javascript more powerful.
> Wondering if we can put it into spec to add the missing features. Regexp is
> very powerful and currently, Javascript is being held by by the missing
> features.
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