When I saw this headline, I got excited about the prospect of a new innovation in the application of Regular Expressions. After reading, I was scratching my head because trre doesn't provide any new capabilities and is essentially just yet another flavor of regex. Additional complexity without a significant upside.

Trre seems like an arbitrarily different version of `sed -e /a/b/ ..`. This method of search and replace is essentially ported everywhere else, from awk to vim to IntelliJ, and has always gotten the job done adequately and feels as natural as anything else I've learned.

Am I missing something?

p.s I just realized I've been regex'ing heavily for 21 (!) years now, time flies.