I nearly started writing an introductory text on parser combinators in Rust today, but luckily I went off to work on the thing I wrote the parser for instead.
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So I've got a very nice parser for writing custom DSLs as Rust proc macros, optimised for compilation time, which, as I've discovered after six months of waiting for LALRPOP, is what matters the most for programmer happiness when working on proc macros.
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And I've got a fully type checked DSL for declarative Gtk apps in the pipeline, based on learnings from typed-html. But, actually, maybe I should write that parser combinator article.
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Replying to @bodil
Write it. Literally started looking at parser combinators today to kill some lalrpoop with
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Replying to @heinz_gies @darachennis
Well, but that's his default state, though.
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Replying to @bodil @darachennis
Fair point, it was at lest a darach Leven 3 today so, not the normal level 1 cursing. He did the hands-raised-in-anger thing.
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Replying to @heinz_gies @bodil
Pot-Kettle lifetime hater and abuser of clearly doco'd intrinsics whispering "Rust I hate you" all day
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