I am reminded of VerbalExpressions https://github.com/VerbalExpressions which hit HN in early August. Interested in learning more about regex's I did some work on a Racket port.

That project shows there are two tracks by which to tackle the problem that regex syntax is incoherent gobbledygook. The first is creating a regex version of pho with 5000 functions and mix and match names piece by piece. The second is to rename regex symbols to something that is easier for humans to parse.