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Introducing: Pomsky (formerly Rulex)

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!


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Renaming Rulex

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.


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