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Melody 0.19.0 | A language that compiles to regular expressions and aims to be more easily readable and maintainable (github.com)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interesting, regexps are indeed made with a very dense and obscure syntax, I could see a kind of DSL being useful. What do you think?

[–] saucyloggins 4 points 1 year ago

I’m intrigued. Even just like a shell with this to dump out to different language would be really handy.

Regex is so dense it’s hard to memorize, the differences between languages don’t do it any favors either.