
Tech Talk: Crafting Interpreters With Bob Nystrom
CoRecursive: Coding Stories
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The Importance of Parsing in Language Implementation
In your language, I forget how many lines you said it was. How much of it is parsing? Is that a bulk of it or a small amount? No, it's not the bulk of it. Like a hand rolled recursive descent parser, which is the strategy we use for most of the parsers. It's actually fairly straightforward. There's not too much overhead. If you want to listen to me click around, I could even get the line count.
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