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by exdsq 1913 days ago
The title copies the second sentence of their readme:

> You can use it to parse custom file formats or quickly build parsers, interpreters, and compilers for programming languages.

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I guess it depends on what it means to somebody to build a compiler. Something like yacc says "compiler compiler" in the name but really it is a parser generator. The hard part of industrial compilers is the optimization.