I'd say that Nystrom's point in context is more "How you parse doesn't matter." He says, later in that link: "Recursive descent, Pratt parsing, and the popular

I'd say that Nystrom's point in context is more "How you parse doesn't matter." He says, later in that link: "Recursive descent, Pratt parsing, and the popular parser generators like ANTLR or Bison are all fine." Any of these can be reusable parsers that you and/or others can easily use to create tools.