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In the embedded video they show some of the code side by side and it is just a ton of if statements. https://youtu.be/pNlq-EVld70?si=UaFDVwhwyQZqkZrW&t=323 htt

• 1oooqooq 2y ago
  to be fair, there's not many ways to implement a token matcher. though looking at that flood of loose ifs+returns, i kinda wish they used rust :)
  • dcre 2y ago
    I’d guess Rust compile times weren’t worth it if they weren’t going to be taking advantage of the type system in interesting ways.