As a tangent, I have this same complaint about how regex are perceived, except the situation is even worse. At least SQL is actually designed, standardized and

As a tangent, I have this same complaint about how regex are perceived, except the situation is even worse. At least SQL is actually designed, standardized and somewhat readable. In comparison the familiar regex syntax has been organically brewing, from simple kleene star to the impenetrable linenoise it is today, with no rhyme or reason. I know there has been some movement to create new regex languages[1] but like PRQL they are very niche. [1] https://github.com/pomsky-lang/pomsky https://github.com/pomsky-lang/pomsky comes to mind, no endorsement