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		afdbcreid 9 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rust GCC backend: Why and how I don't know a single mainstream language that uses parser generators. Python used to, and even they have moved. AFAIK the reason is solely error messages: the customization available with handwritten parsers is just way better for the user.

muvlon 9 days ago | [–]

I'll let you decide whether it counts as "mainstream", but the principal implementation of Nix has a very old school setup using bison and flex:

https://github.com/NixOS/nix/blob/master/src/libexpr/parser....

https://github.com/NixOS/nix/blob/master/src/libexpr/lexer.l

nullpoint420 8 days ago | | [–]

It shows, even as a Nix fan. The errors messages are abysmal

sanxiyn 9 days ago | [–]

Ruby also used to use Bison, uses its own https://github.com/ruby/lrama these days.

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