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  • zygo_histo_morpheus@programming.devEnglish
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    1 year ago

    To me the main advantage would be that it makes regexes more readable, not more writable. Integrating melody in to a project seems like it would add more indirection which would make it more inconvenient to read. Feels like this would be more useful as a rust proc macro for example so that you can actually have it alongside your code in a convenient way rather than have it compile to ES6 regexes.

  • itadakimasu@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    This is neat… will have to try it out next time I have a need.

    I have to admit though, since ChatGPT came along… making regex has been infinity easier. Game changer.

    • zygo_histo_morpheus@programming.devEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Would be nice for GPT to spit out melody code so it’s easier to verify it. I assume that there isn’t enough training data for it to work well though.