Super-expressive – Write regex in natural language
For me, it&#x27;s like writing 10824 &quot;ten thousand eight hundred and twenty four&quot;.<p>I&#x27;d rather read a real regex using the verbose flag to comment groups:<p>- it shows the real regex for quick scanning and for those familiar with the syntax<p>- it explains things to the people that are not familiar with it or if the regex is complicated<p>- it forces the writer to divide the regex into logical groups<p>- such a system would have comment anyway, to indicate what you are matching such as &quot;product code, date, color&quot; for each part of the matching code.<p>- if you can&#x27;t write or read regex and your job is programming, spending an afternoon learning them should be your next step. They are everywhere, no matter the tech stack: unix tools, IDE, 3rd party libs...<p>- there are plenty of regex tester UI, which let me copy the regex and test various case to see what it does, and tweak it<p>But I can see the value of such a lib for learning regexes.