3 HN users recommended this talk3 months2019–2021score 3.5
Years with an HN recommendation, 2007–2026
HN commenters recommend it as a clear, dense hour on parsers and parser combinators that holds the audience.
Sasa Juric explains how to parse a language from first principles without regexes, live-coding a simple parser combinator library in Elixir. It was given at WebCamp Zagreb 2019.
“Saša Jurić is fantastic at condensing lots of information in a 1 hour talk without losing the audience” (HN, 2019)
+1 for both talks Saša Jurić is fantastic at condensing lots of information in a 1 hour talk without losing the audience, he gave another great talk this year called Parsing from first principles ( [this video] ).
Speaker condenses lots of information in great talk.
This is a good article. Especially in that it talks a little bit about error handling which does not feel like a strength of NimbleParsec. Another good resource is this talk by Saša Jurić on Parsing from First Principles ( [this video] ) where he talks about parser combinators and live-codes a simple Elixir PC library. That inspired me to build my own alternative to NimbleParsec . Partly because my use case makes error handling very important and I couldn't get a grip on how to do that with NP and partly as a decent problem to get to grips with Elixir. I'm currently figuring out lookahead. This is a great area to play in that has a lot of useful applications.
Live-codes a simple Elixir parser combinator library.
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