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by jmkr 652 days ago
Been interested in parser combinators for a while now but never really understood how people use them outside of toy examples (including watching this video multiple times).

Are there any books like the popular compilers books that use them to build a language. Or is it just finding parsec implementations?

I've been interested in Coalton lately, and I guess this is one of the examples, so maybe I've answered my own question.

https://github.com/coalton-lang/coalton/tree/main/examples/q...

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>Are there any books like the popular compilers books that use them to build a language. Or is it just finding parsec implementations?

Unfortunately I am fairly new to this field too, so I don't know of any such books, sorry. I was just browsing about parsing topics and came across that video.

In my comment to which you replied, I was referring to myself as well as others, when I mentioned beginners :)