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Comment by ActorNightly

4 years ago

Disagree.

Writing parsers is the same level of complexity as interview FAANG level questions. Any decent developer should be able to write a parser from scratch.

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TheCoelacanth  4 years ago

Any decent developers can write a parser. Most can't (or at least don't have enough time before they need to get back to whatever their main job is) to write a fast, secure and robust one for a complex grammar.

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