I mainly use Go and am used to Go Playground http://play.golang.org/ for testing very small snippets and sharing them with others in IRC for education/debugging.
Debuggex is already part of my workflow when I write regular expressions, I was using it just yesterday to test some pre-processing of Markdown.
The value to me is already there, but right now it's something I could also do without... but if the regexp engine on Debuggex is the one that is in use in the language in which I wish to implement the regexp, then that does change everything. The value then becomes very high to me.
Debuggex can get you the first 95% of the way, but that last 5% of working out why something is not quite as you expect is where most of the pain is.
I generally find that the last 5% is implementation specific features and syntax (I have only settled on Go recently and tended to work in several languages at a time for the past 5 years, so most of my regexp pain comes from context switching languages and libraries).
Being able to select the exact implementation is the tipping point for me to reach into my pocket and pay.
I mainly use Go and am used to Go Playground http://play.golang.org/ for testing very small snippets and sharing them with others in IRC for education/debugging.
Debuggex is already part of my workflow when I write regular expressions, I was using it just yesterday to test some pre-processing of Markdown.
The value to me is already there, but right now it's something I could also do without... but if the regexp engine on Debuggex is the one that is in use in the language in which I wish to implement the regexp, then that does change everything. The value then becomes very high to me.
Debuggex can get you the first 95% of the way, but that last 5% of working out why something is not quite as you expect is where most of the pain is.
I generally find that the last 5% is implementation specific features and syntax (I have only settled on Go recently and tended to work in several languages at a time for the past 5 years, so most of my regexp pain comes from context switching languages and libraries).
Being able to select the exact implementation is the tipping point for me to reach into my pocket and pay.