[Haskell-cafe] regex and Regular Expressions Libraries

Dear Haskell Cafe, With the regex announcement, I wanted to try get other folks' perspective on what has been happening with the Haskell regular expression libraries. I have been in turn impressed at how good the engineering of the Regex packages while gobsmacked by how difficult the traditional Text.Regex API is to use. In this blog post, http://engineers.irisconnect.net/posts/2017-03-07-regex.html I rather cheekily speculate that the Haskellers perhaps have been a bit disdainful of regular expressions (not important in a language capable of doing proper parsing, etc.). What do you think? Chris