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>I personally prefer hand-written recursive descent parsers >using a parser combinator framework (like https://github.com https://github.com >/Geal/nom) over

• vidarh 9y ago
  Why handwritten, or why using a parser combinator framework? Handwritten parsers are most commonly used because most tools have problems making things like proper error reporting good enough to be worthwhile. Parser combinators is really just a fancy way of composing a parser from higher order functions instead of writing out a function body. If well done it basically provides a DSL to build the parsers, and the way this works by composing small fragments is pretty much what we do with recursive descent anyway, so it's a good fit.