oh god no, that’s an even bigger abomination than regex themselves
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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.
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.
I learned enough to see how powerful it was, then started using it within Sublime Text to edit data from time to time. (Extract URLs or something from a websites code, reformat X or Y data for a script I’m hacking together) and I’ve slowly retained more and more of the elements I repeatedly use. I think I’ve actually got a pretty good grasp on it. Maybe you should be using it more.
When you want to get better using a hammer, just treat everything as a nail.
Oh great. A new flavour of regex, but it’s less portable and more verbose. https://xkcd.com/927/
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.
