I’m not fully awake and I’m confused by “Deprecated: Please use the gleam_regexp package instead”

[brittle axle]

I wanted to use regex for today’s Advent of Code problem. I just guessed that there would be a regex module so I typed that and got autocomplete and started using the functions. It worked great. At one point I needed to read the docs, so I went to: https://hexdocs.pm/gleam_stdlib/gleam/regex.html. It says:

Deprecated: Please use the gleam_regexp package instead

on everything. I went to https://hexdocs.pm/ and wrote “gleam_regexp” in the search box, but nothing happened. The top 3 Google results didn’t give that package either, so I just ignored that advice and went on with my program. (Search Google again, it’s apparently the 4th result for me, but Google sucks and only displays what’s in the screenshot so in my AoC-frenzy I didn’t get it.)

After finishing Advent of Code, I checked GitHub and found this very recent (aha, that explains why I got no deprecation warnings when running – I don’t have that change yet!) commit which deprecated it: https://github.com/gleam-lang/stdlib/commit/a474dfba2393b037ce676ec3608407a285ebfca9

But it doesn’t say why. I did find some clues while writing this message though: #general message

Oh, and gleam_regexp does exist on hexdocs:
#advent-of-code message

I don’t know, I guess I figured it all out while writing this … I’m still curious why I failed to search on hexdocs though. Edit: Ooooh, you’re not supposed to use the search box, you’re supposed to just write hexdocs.pm/PACKAGE_NAME? https://hexdocs.pm/gleam_regexp/

</gleam beginner> 😊

[orchid night]

The reason you didn’t find it in hexdocs search is because recently there seems to have been a problem indexing packages

a lot of recently published gleam packages don’t show up when you search on hexdocs but do show up when you search on hex.pm itself

[brittle axle]

Ah, I see! An unfortunate pile-up of bad timing for me 😄

[alpine belfry]

Oh my is that elm logo

you will have such a good time with Lustre it got the elm architecture for frotnend or backend

[brittle axle]

Yep, that’s the Elm logo! Made out of feta cheese, lol. Hayleigh is talking about Gleam and Lustre all the time in all the Elm places, that’s how I got into Gleam for this AoC 😄

[alpine belfry]

Ye i was doing the same thing posted on elm subreddit and elm land server

Because Lustre and Gleam seem like something elm deveolopers would want

because i have seen alot of elm deveolopers use Elixir

[brittle axle]

Haven’t tried Lustre yet, but so far I’m really loving Gleam

[alpine belfry]

the only project i built with lustre was a collaborative kanban board

[orchid night]

FWIW I’ve sent a support email to the hex team

[sharp plume]

Edit: Ooooh, you’re not supposed to use the search box, you’re supposed to just write hexdocs.pm/PACKAGE_NAME? https://hexdocs.pm/gleam_regexp/

I don't think using the hexdocs search makes much sense, the search for hex itself is here:
https://hex.pm/
I've never had it fail me for outdated indices or anything, hexdocs search seems to be separate, though I'm not really sure why you'd even use that.
Can also use https://packages.gleam.run/ for searching Gleam packages specifically