There are a lot of cool tools for helping write regexes, my favor is re-builder mode in emacs. You write the regex in the minibuffer and see what matches in th

There are a lot of cool tools for helping write regexes, my favor is re-builder mode in emacs. You write the regex in the minibuffer and see what matches in the text in the buffer. It makes debugging regexes very easy. Tools like sed and regexes are compact and very powerful, and they aren't difficult to learn. I really don't understand the need for this library, which seem needlessly verbose. And you will still need to be able to read regexes in other people's code. It's a nice idea, and good work, but in my opinion it's solving a problem that doesn't exist.