[pif]

> I find regex easier to write than to read.

There is nothing new under the sun.

Joel, 22 years ago:

There’s a subtle reason that programmers always want to throw away the code and start over. The reason is that they think the old code is a mess. [...] The reason that they think the old code is a mess is because of a cardinal, fundamental law of programming: It’s harder to read code than to write it.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...

[MontyCarloHall]

Joel is 100% spot on. This is exactly why I don’t think things like Copilot will catch on. Making programming involve less writing code and more reading code actually makes the job more difficult.

[Tijdreiziger]

And the corollary: since code is harder to read than write, steer clear of writing clever code where simple code would suffice, as the clever code will be much harder to read.

[roeles]

A second argument is that debugging is harder than writing.

[morberg]

AKA Kernighan's Law: https://www.laws-of-software.com/laws/kernighan/

[dgfitz]

s/writing/reading

[stackbutterflow]

I say that because there's a meme that nobody writes regex and that everyone copy-paste it from stackoverflow.