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wavebeem / bread-n-butter

Parser combinators for TypeScript and JavaScript
https://bread-n-butter.wavebeem.com/
MIT License
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Status of project? #32

Closed bstro closed 3 years ago

bstro commented 3 years ago

Hi there; hoping none of this comes across with an entitled tone, I'm just looking for some signal about the status of this project. I'm building a side-project and looking around for promising typescript combinator libraries and I stumbled across this while looking at https://github.com/jneen/parsimmon/issues/230. Is this library still being worked on?

wavebeem commented 3 years ago

Hi @bstro

The status of this project is "it does everything I need it to do already", essentially

As for Parsimmon v2, the status on that is "I don't have the energy to work on this right now"

Most likely Parsimmon v2 will be incredibly similar or nearly identical to bread-n-butter.

A tool like parser combinators doesn't really need to be updated frequently, in my opinion. Parsimmon became bloated, and I'd rather encourage folks to make companion libraries, rather than incorporating every possible combinator into one big library (look at how huge lodash is these days...).

wavebeem commented 3 years ago

If you want to use bnb in your project, I think you should. When Parsimmon v2 eventually arrives, I think it should be a simple migration, mostly renaming things, for most uses.

bstro commented 3 years ago

Thanks @wavebeem! I appreciate your reply. I like the look of bnb's api and I'm gonna give it a shot!

stefnotch commented 2 years ago

For the record, I've been using this library to write a math and boolean algebra parser. It even gets the exponent rules right! The API is really nice and the library has given me zero issues so far.

Glad to hear that it wasn't just my impression and that this library is indeed really stable.

wavebeem commented 2 years ago

@stefnotch math parsers are always tough, thanks for sharing! glad you're enjoying bnb 💚