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Tech Talk: Crafting Interpreters With Bob Nystrom

CoRecursive: Coding Stories

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How to Write a Parser Generator

A Parser Generator is a piece of software where you give it a textual description of your language as grammar. It will spit out a chunk of code that is an implementation of a parsers for that language. So in the book, we hand roll the parser. We don't use aparser generator. The part of it is because I don't want people to think that, okay, well, theParserGenerator is magic.

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