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Pomsky 0.11

This release comes with some exciting new features:

  • Unit tests to make sure your Pomsky expressions are correct
  • Negation of variables makes code re-use easier
  • New word boundaries < and >, matching at the start and end of a word, respectively
  • Recursion to match recursive grammars in PCRE and Ruby
  • Much improved documentation

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Pomsky 0.10 released with new tools

Just last week, Pomsky celebrated its first birthday! Today, I’m announcing version 0.10, along with a VSCode extension and a JavaScript plugin. This allows you to write regular expressions with Pomsky, and include them as RegExp with a bundler like Vite or Webpack.


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Pomsky 0.9 and our roadmap

With this release, we’re celebrating 1000 stars on GitHub! This is an important milestone, so I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has supported me along the way: My siblings who always cheer me up, my colleague who gave me legal advice, everyone from the Rust community who provided useful feedback to me, the people who sent me pull requests, reported bugs, proposed new features, or reported vulnerabilities, and DALL·E for designing our logo. Thank you! Pomsky has a Discord server now. Stop by if you have a question, want to help, or just want to chat with the maintainers (currently only me) or other users!


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Pomsky 0.8 released

This release focuses on stability, but also brings a few new features:

  • Inline regexes landed, allowing you to use regex features not yet supported by Pomsky
  • Pomsky now supports the dot, matching any code point
  • An optimization pass that tries to make the generated regex smaller
  • Many bugs were fixed

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Pomsky 0.7 released

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.


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