M. J. Frombergercreachadair@phire.place
Nov 8, 2026, 12:06 AM@danderson And to make one that is usable, performs well, and produces good diagnostics? Challenge level: impossible.
But I still enjoy them as a tool for thinking about grammars.
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Dave Andersondanderson@hachyderm.ioNov 8, 2026, 12:15 AM@creachadair The initial attraction of this one was that it takes care of figuring out spans properly, and the builtin combinators allegedly produce good enough errors (with some annotation help) that it can do one of those fancy compiler errors with asciii art.
But at what cost...