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I have the impression that learning this would feel like learning Italian, after learning Spanish, and being a native French speaker.

> If you know RegExp's, the syntax will immediately make sense

Doesn't seem like a feature.

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Maybe not a feature eventually, but absolutely during a transitional time, particularly if many of those who would consider such a transition are like me— they "know" regex, have written thousands of them, but even decades later continue to find them annoying, finicky, and hard to debug.

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