[cutler]

Yeah, right, so why do I still have to escape regex metacharacters in Java in 2021? That's just so 1988.

[The_rationalist]

You don't have to, java support raw strings. But yeah Kotlin is far superior, denying it is only proof of partial knowledge/ignorance.

[cutler]

Raw strings don't apply to regexen. You still have to escape the metacharacaters.