Melody – A readable language that compiles to regular expressions
Melody was posted here (not by myself), but the project was still in very early stages, and so I wanted to post an update that Melody now has:
- A Babel plugin - https://www.npmjs.com/package/babel-plugin-melody
- NodeJS bindings via WASM - https://www.npmjs.com/package/melodyc
- A playground - https://melody-playground.vercel.app/
- VSCode and JetBrains extensions - https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=yoavlavi.melody https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/18693-melody
- A CLI and REPL
- A documentation book - https://yoav-lavi.github.io/melody/book/
The idea behind Melody is to represent regular expressions in a readable, maintainable format that plays nicely with larger projects, multiple people, diffs and so forth, while adding some QOL features.
See the repository here: https://github.com/yoav-lavi/melody
Comments
I like innovation, and I'm all for making programming easier.
That said, from the example documentation.. <start>;
option of "v";
capture major { some of <digit>; }
".";
capture minor { some of <digit>; }
".";
capture patch { some of <digit>; }
<end>;
// v1.0.0
Show that to someone who isn't familiar with regex, and they'll have no idea what it means.
Someone who is familiar with regex, will likely prefer the regex format.
I can see the value of this but I worry that the implementation of support for it has rushed ahead of what "it" is. To be successful I think a formal definition of how say 90% of regex expressions would be represented should be created and reviewed.
None of these links work when you submit them in question text.
It's better to just submit links as links.