5d ago

Hmm, reading about Raku regexes and it feels like some strong tradeoffs. On the one hand, sounds like they are a huge upgrade over Perl regexes. On the other hand, Perl regexes are hard enough to writ

Hmm, reading about Raku regexes and it feels like some strong tradeoffs. On the one hand, sounds like they are a huge upgrade over Perl regexes. On the other hand, Perl regexes are hard enough to write without learning a different system that's not going to be supported everywhere else (eg inside of Splunk)

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Hmm, reading about Raku regexes and it feels like some strong tradeoffs. On the one hand, sounds like they are a huge upgrade over Perl regexes. On the other hand, Perl regexes are hard enough to writ

mastodon:hachydermother5d ago kagi ↗

Hmm, reading about Raku regexes and it feels like some strong tradeoffs. On the one hand, sounds like they are a huge upgrade over Perl regexes. On the other hand, Perl regexes are hard enough to write without learning a different system that's not going to be supported everywhere else (eg inside of Splunk)