[brmgb]

> with a good example of how it's better than any other parser generator.

I already told you that it has full support for disambiguating LR(1) grammar and still generating a parser which is easy to read. How do you want me to paste a full parser in a HN comment?

Most generators only support LALR(1) grammar which is limiting and don’t deal with corner cases as gracefully.

I get that you are hell bent on wanting Rust to prevail here but Rust will always be a subpar experience for wiring anything which doesn’t strongly benefit for its low level primitive. Rust has annoying semantics and a convoluted syntax. I can bear with that when the performances are needed but writing a compiler in it is just unnecessary pain. It’s also one of the only thing for which I would actually use Ocaml.

[hardwaregeek]

Okay…so it accepts more grammars than other parser generators. That doesn’t seem massive if I’m being honest. If you had said mehnir works with your IDE (navigating C code inside bison drove me nuts), and had good support for error recovery and idk, gave you syntax highlighting for free, I’d agree. But a minor upgrade in grammars? Not exactly Christmas here.

I have a question for you then: why is it that so many projects that are not performance bound, that are not low level systems projects, why do they use Rust and not OCaml? OCaml had a 22 year head start after all.