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[francisrstokes]

VerbalExpressions is a library that's been around for a long time, with a lot of stars and a lot of ports, but there are reasons to choose SuperExpressive instead:

• VerbalExpressions are incompatible with Promises and Async/Await, because they contain a non-compliant .then() method. If you return a verbal expression from a promise, it's not going to behave as expected.
• No support for various regular expression features:
  • non-capturing groups
  • named groups
  • backreferences
  • lookaheads
  • etc
• No support for sub expressions, so creating reusable parts is not possible
• VerbalExpressions are mutable, so creating a new expression based on an existing one is not possible (see example below)

expr.maybe('s');
const expr2 = expr.maybe('t');

// expr is now: expr.maybe('s').maybe('t')