I generally agree, but there are definitely exceptions. The most impressive I've seen is Haoyi Li parsing a decent chunk of Haskell using his FastParse library

I generally agree, but there are definitely exceptions. The most impressive I've seen is Haoyi Li parsing a decent chunk of Haskell using his FastParse library in ~10 minutes: https://youtu.be/mARO-qchsKM?t=2386 https://youtu.be/mARO-qchsKM?t=2386