I have a (mostly abandoned) side project with the same aim. I spent a lot of time thinking about language design, from the perspective of enabling adoption of a

I have a (mostly abandoned) side project with the same aim. I spent a lot of time thinking about language design, from the perspective of enabling adoption of a new language when an existing one has so much network effect: https://www.slideshare.net/AurSaraf/re3-modern-regex-syntax-with-a-focus-on-adoption https://www.slideshare.net/AurSaraf/re3-modern-regex-syntax-... https://github.com/sonoflilit/re2 https://github.com/sonoflilit/re2 If people like my direction, I may continue to work on it.