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by hardwaregeek 1040 days ago
Okay…so it accepts more grammars than other parser generators. That doesn’t seem massive if I’m being honest. If you had said mehnir works with your IDE (navigating C code inside bison drove me nuts), and had good support for error recovery and idk, gave you syntax highlighting for free, I’d agree. But a minor upgrade in grammars? Not exactly Christmas here.

I have a question for you then: why is it that so many projects that are not performance bound, that are not low level systems projects, why do they use Rust and not OCaml? OCaml had a 22 year head start after all.