I don't get the point of #dotnet runtime team releasing unfinished types like the Regex ValueMatch type which is missing group capturing. It's been 3 years since this issue was opened. github.com/dotnet/runti... - ThreadSky

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james-jackson-south.me • 15 days ago

I don't get the point of #dotnet runtime team releasing unfinished types like the Regex ValueMatch type which is missing group capturing.

It's been 3 years since this issue was opened.

https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/73223

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james-jackson-south.me•15 days ago

Regex.EnumerateMatches was released with a fanfare with #dotnet 7

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/regular-expression-improvements-in-dotnet-7/#spans

james-jackson-south.me•15 days ago

There's no point IMO in lauding something as faster when it doesn't provide equivalent functionality. A bullet is faster than a car, but it can't get you to work on time.

brunogarcia.com•15 days ago

When S.T.J came out it wasn’t equivalent to Newtonsoft.Json but it solved some use cases while offering better perf (a feature). I think there’s value in that.

To be fair I immediately opened an issue because the DataMember attributes didn’t work. https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/29975

james-jackson-south.me•15 days ago

I'd be amazed if I was alone in still using Newtonsoft over S.T.J when dealing with anything that I don't own the generation of. Still, it had enough features at launch to support a lot of use cases.

ValueMatch seems like a dead end for anything more than the "hello world" of Regex.

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