• @Alexstarfire@lemmy.world
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      12 days ago

      TBF to regex, it’s completely unreadable. I love the magic that can be done with it, but by God, it needs syntax highlighting. Something may do this, but I’ve never seen anything that does.

      • @brianary@startrek.website
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        12 days ago

        You get used to it sooner than you’d think. There are libraries to convert between regex and English. Maybe it deserves a Unicode code block like APL?

    • I Cast Fist
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      25 days ago

      Ugh, i’ve had to write some Selenium tests where I had to come up with weird ass Xpaths because not a single fucking element had an ID and over half would spawn something in a different div