> nobody hand-writes parsers for large languages; that's just a needless source of tedium and bugs That is absolutely not true! In fact, most major programming

> nobody hand-writes parsers for large languages; that's just a needless source of tedium and bugs That is absolutely not true! In fact, most major programming language implementations use handwritten parsers [0]. That said: > Using a parser generator is also a smart move since they exist already Jamie wrote the parser generator here too. So it's all the more "from scratch". [0] https://notes.eatonphil.com/parser-generators-vs-handwritten-parsers-survey-2021.html https://notes.eatonphil.com/parser-generators-vs-handwritten...