I just released Pomsky 0.7 with a new, much faster parser.
Pomsky is a portable, modern syntax for regular expressions. It has powerful features, such as variables, and a much more readable syntax. Check out the language tour to quickly get familiar with Pomsky, or the examples to see some real Pomsky expressions.
This year in February, I started a new project, which I named Rulex: A language that is transpiled to regular expressions. A month later, I released the first version of Rulex. A lot has happened since then, so I wanted to give an update. First, the summary:
Rulex got noticed: It trended on Hacker News and now has over 700 stars on GitHub 🚀
I published my first two security advisories for Rulex on GitHub
I was forced to rename Rulex to Pomsky, because a lawyer claimed that my project violates a registered trademark
Pomsky now has a website with a feature-rich online playground
Pomsky is still in an alpha stage, but it has seen many new features, improvements and bugfixes since its first release.
If you’re using Pomsky, or want to use it, I’d like to hear from you!
Hello world. This is not what I expected my first blog post to be, but here we are. I was recently contacted by a lawyer on behalf of Rulex, Inc., who claimed that I’m not allowed to use the name “Rulex” for my project, because they own a registered trademark for the name. This is disappointing because coming up with a good name that isn’t already used is hard. Furthermore, their trademark is registered for software using Artificial Intelligence, so I’m pretty sure that I’m allowed to use it for a project that is unrelated to AI.
