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I like to think of DSL's for regex as a good way for people who don't have time to master regex itself, or are beginners, to actually use regex. Been doing programming for about 10 years and only fairly recently took the time to properly learn regex, but could've definitely benefitted from a DSL way before that. Good job Abhinav!

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The fact that nobody wants to learn or use regex is a pretty strong indicator that it's not a very good language. I think we've largely settled on it as matter of historical contingency rather than because it has any particular merit. For starters there's no capacity to name expressions in order to combine them at a higher level of abstraction.

I'd love to see something like Rosie take off as an alternative: https://rosie-lang.org/about/

everybody is learning regex, it's part of any standard curriculum, it's in everyday use on unix platforms, rigid implementation without variables or recursion is a regular automaton has a firm place in the computational hierarchy and the benefit of predictable runtime, the markup is just syntactic sugar, and you can of course embed regex in any more powerful programming language that allows variables, like awk, perl, etc. Perl, hardly anyone wants to learn anymore, if that's what you mean.

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