pomsky-lang/pomsky

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Pomsky is a modern, portable regular expression language that cross-compiles to standard regexes for engines like PCRE, JavaScript, Python, Java, .NET, Ruby, Rust, and RE2. It ships as a Rust library and CLI, with a VS Code extension and online playground.

Use cases

• write readable regexes with saner syntax
• compile pomsky expressions to JavaScript regex
• generate regexes compatible with multiple engines
• replace complex regex with variables and ranges
• test regex patterns with built-in tests

When to choose

• you maintain complex regexes that are hard to read
• you need the same pattern across multiple regex flavors
• you want editor tooling and diagnostics for regex authoring

When to avoid

• your team only knows plain regex and won't learn a new syntax
• you target a regex engine Pomsky doesn't support
• you need zero build step in your pipeline

Facets

library · maturity active

parser compiler developer-tools programming-languages parsers developer-tools rust cli cross-platform regex-language transpiler regular-expressions vscode-extension nodejs

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