I've written a number of parsers in my time. Eventually, I got tired of writing them by hand (and debugging them!) and switched to Bison. Nowadays I just use Ra

I've written a number of parsers in my time. Eventually, I got tired of writing them by hand (and debugging them!) and switched to Bison. Nowadays I just use Ragel [1] because it's lightning fast and supports a lot of languages. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragel