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> ES6 includes support for Unicode regexps

Will it provide \X for example? (\X matches extended grapheme cluster.)

> am I missing any languages that do?

Swift is one notable example. It has built-in and simple enough grapheme handling.

I haven't looked at Swift, at all. I don't buy Apple products, so have no familiarity with their ecosystem. But, now that it's been opened up, I'll have a look at it, though it seems likely to remain predominantly a language for Apple products for the foreseeable future (I think?), so not something I'd find myself using in production any time soon. But, I guess we'll see how that shakes out over time now that it is open.

Given the rate at which JavaScript is converging on a really nice set of modern features and is having warts removed and performance is accelerating, I wonder if any other language is as relevant long-term.

Swift's Unicode support is sufficiently awesome that my web browser was having issues rendering the documentation for their string class due to the epic working examples ;P.

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