I've had a couple of emails recently with people wondering about Starling and what's happening to it. The project is very much alive, although it's taken me much longer than I thought it would to get to the current stage.

Version 0.2 will be out real soon, with a few big changes: Starling is now a linked-in driver, Unicode regular expressions are supported, and the distribution will include Autoconf scripts to build on Windows/Cygwin, Ubuntu and OSX. I'll probably switch it to MIT License as well.

The Unicode support EEP to go along with it has already been written, and will be published as soon as Starling 0.2 is ready.