> Developers often think parser generators are the sole legit way to build programming language frontends, possibly because compiler courses in university teach

> Developers often think parser generators are the sole legit way to build programming language frontends, possibly because compiler courses in university teach lex/yacc variants. They're far from the only way, handwritten parsers are often mentionned as having way better error recovery. But if you're making a new configuration language, programming language, or something like that, ensuring that it has LR-compliant grammar and that this grammar is the source of truth can avoid a lot of pain later down the road.