I agree. It's not as hard as one might think. I implemented my own handwritten JS parser using TDOP: https://github.com/higgsjs/Higgs/blob/master/source/parser/

I agree. It's not as hard as one might think. I implemented my own handwritten JS parser using TDOP: https://github.com/higgsjs/Higgs/blob/master/source/parser/parser.d#L689 https://github.com/higgsjs/Higgs/blob/master/source/parser/p... I think it's more flexible and maintainable this way. I didn't have to wrestle with odd grammar rules. Implementing the JS "automatic semicolon insertion" with parser generator tools seems like it would have been a cluster headache.