the standard go regex library focuses on linear consistency at the expense of certain workloads.

regex benchmarks

goos: windows
goarch: amd64
pkg: github.com/fallsimply/bilit
BenchmarkPopulate-16    	  375009	      3016 ns/op	     429 B/op	      23 allocs/op
BenchmarkPull-16        	   32786	     37638 ns/op	   33966 B/op	     229 allocs/op
BenchmarkTemplate-16    	  137931	      9063 ns/op	    8327 B/op	      57 allocs/op
PASS
ok  	github.com/fallsimply/bilit	4.248s

Characters to Escape

• Parenthesis - ()
• Curly Brackets - {}
• Square Brackes - []
• Period - .
• Plus Sign - +
• Question Mark - ?
• Dollar Sign - $
• Caret - ^

Prefix with \

Tasks

• Remove Functional API
• Rename Template function
• Remove Debug variable
• Move Design Doc to Wiki
• Remove Design Doc from Repo

i changed my username so github.com/SimplyCodin/bilit should be replaced with github.com/fallsimply/bilit

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