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Agreed. Parser generators are a magic black box. Parsing is not too difficult, there is some actual computer science in some spots, but I think parsing should be a core complacency of a programming language to unlock full potential.



A very very long list of CVEs disagrees with that parsers are "not too difficult".


Binary format parsing != Programming language parsing.


Binary formats are rarely context free.


Agreed, but there are different things being prioritized with each approach.


"core complacency" was an excellent typo in the context of this conversation.


It's rather compelling even without the context. :(




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