Sure, it's much easier to read, especially when it comes to finding and understanding a two-character diff in a 50-char regex.
Sure, I get the benefits of type safety.
Sure, it'll save me time debugging when I accidentally create an invalid regex.
But what am I meant to do with all that time saved? Read a book? Write more code? I don't get it. Let me waste the time on a ludicrously arcane syntax where I spend half the time looking at every bracket trying to understand if it's a control character in that particular context, because the ego trip I get from mastering this ridiculousness is HUGE!
(Yes, I understand regex syntax. I've been able to explain the phrase "zero-width negative lookbehind assertion" for the past twenty years. I inhaled the Friedl book and got utterly high on the idea that the awesome power of regular expressions - which are genuinely great in how they ease flexibility in accepting input - is entwined with their completely inhuman syntax. But I was wrong.)
Sure, I get the benefits of type safety.
Sure, it'll save me time debugging when I accidentally create an invalid regex.
But what am I meant to do with all that time saved? Read a book? Write more code? I don't get it. Let me waste the time on a ludicrously arcane syntax where I spend half the time looking at every bracket trying to understand if it's a control character in that particular context, because the ego trip I get from mastering this ridiculousness is HUGE!
(Yes, I understand regex syntax. I've been able to explain the phrase "zero-width negative lookbehind assertion" for the past twenty years. I inhaled the Friedl book and got utterly high on the idea that the awesome power of regular expressions - which are genuinely great in how they ease flexibility in accepting input - is entwined with their completely inhuman syntax. But I was wrong.)