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Melody is a language that compiles to regular expressions and aims to be more readable and maintainable

8 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 3 stories, 5 comments · first 2022-02-16 · latest 2026-10-18

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  1. Melody ( https://github.com/yoav-lavi/melody ) is very similar in syntax to your example. For example: <start>; option of "v"; capture major { some of <digit>; } "."; capture minor { some of <digit>; } "."; capture patch { some of <digit>;…
    comment by yoav_lavi · 2026-10-18 · in Regex visualized as 3D marble run
  2. I created Melody ( https://github.com/yoav-lavi/melody ) for the same reasons you've mentioned in the website. I knew AI would try to replace me one day, but I didn't think it'd be so soon. Kidding of course, looks really cool!
    comment by yoav_lavi · 2022-07-09 · in AutoRegex
  3. …online playground. [1-3 'What is your ' ['name' | 'quest' | 'favourite colour'] '?' [0-1 #space]] - https://github.com/yoav-lavi/melody - More verbose, supports macros, backslash escapes only for quotes. Rust compiler, babel plugin.…
    comment by SonOfLilit · 2022-06-10 · in Rulex – A new, portable, regular expression language
  4. I recommend checking Melody out if you're into readable regex alternatives: https://github.com/yoav-lavi/melody
    comment by fathyb · 2022-06-10 · in Rulex – A new, portable, regular expression language
  5. …multiple people, diffs and so forth, while adding some QOL features. See the repository here: https://github.com/yoav-lavi/melody
    comment by yoav_lavi · 2022-04-04 · in Babel Plugin Melody