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Tech Talk: Crafting Interpreters With Bob Nystrom

CoRecursive: Coding Stories

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The Importance of Hand Rolling Parsers

There are pragmatic reasons to want to hand roll your parser. They can be kind of more of a chore to maintain because you're handwriting them in a lower level. In return for that, performance questions are a little hard to answer. But I think in general, they can be fast and fast enough. And it's much easier to have high quality error handling.

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