• Kempeth@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      but it’s less portable and more verbose

      you misspelled “less obtuse and more expressive”

      Also it doesn’t compete with regex. It’s an abstraction layer. You know, the thing programmers have been building since the dawn of programming to make everyone’s lives easier. There’s a reason why everyone who has the option to has stopped working directly with assembly and C.

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      I wouldn’t consider Melody a new flavour of regex as it compiles to ECMAScript regular expressions.

      I’d consider being more verbose than regular expressions as a great thing for what this project aims to do, regular expressions are very write optimized which is the wrong (IMO) tradeoff to make in a shared codebase (or even your personal code that’s more than a few days old) where code is read much more often.