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Re:Rulex – A new, portable, regular expression language by burntsushi on Friday June 10, 2022 @08:07AM (#31692890)
We did the same thing for Rust. Regexes are neither in the language nor in the standard library. Go doesn't have them in the language either (although they're in the standard library).
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Re:Rulex – A new, portable, regular expression language by macintux on Friday June 10, 2022 @08:43AM (#31693265)
Rust wasn’t trying to become the standard web programming language.
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Re:Rulex – A new, portable, regular expression language by burntsushi on Friday June 10, 2022 @08:52AM (#31693364)
I didn't realize that was a necessary precondition in your evaluation of what makes something "crazy." Sorry.
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Re:Rulex – A new, portable, regular expression language by macintux on Friday June 10, 2022 @09:08AM (#31693561)
Sorry, early morning. I should have been more verbose.

Rust has a different target problem space, a different standard library philosophy, a package management system, and exists in a world where adding external dependencies is trivial.

Java didn’t have any of those excuses.

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Re:Rulex – A new, portable, regular expression language by oblio on Friday June 10, 2022 @08:56AM (#31693410)
Well, Java turned out quite all right on that front :-)
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