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IMHO the barrier of entry really came down because with PEG-styled parser libs they put you back in the comfortable "declarative land" where you specify what yo
by smilekzs 5y ago
IMHO the barrier of entry really came down because with PEG-styled parser libs they put you back in the comfortable "declarative land" where you specify what you want using roughly the same mental model as RegEx without having to worry too much about quirks caused by implementation (i.e. leaky abstraction).
- chrisseaton 5y ago> IMHO the barrier of entry really came down because with PEG-styled parser libs they put you back in the comfortable "declarative land" The whole idea of PEGs is that they’re specifically not declarative - they’re an imperative way to express a parser.