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Melody 0.19.0 | A language that compiles to regular expressions and aims to be more readable and maintainable (github.com)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago (21 children)

Who is this for? People who write lots of regular expressions won't need it because they know what they're doing and people who don't write lots of regular expressions probably won't find it anyway.

It just seems like a weird type of user who actually wants this.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (11 children)

I almost never use regex, but when I do, I'd love something like this. Exactly because I don't use regex enough to be bothered learning it's impenetrable syntax.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I just learned to type what I want from a regex in chatgpt and call it a day. It works pretty well.