Other than the appealing symmetry of being able to use a language to parse that same language, this feels very similar to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17

Other than the appealing symmetry of being able to use a language to parse that same language, this feels very similar to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open... Edit: I just checked and sadly someone beat me to it in 2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20910120 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20910120