There are few rites of programmer passage as iconic as writing your first parser. You might want to interpret or compile a scripting language, or you might want to accept natural-language-like ...

One year ago Facebook made the surprising announcement that it was shuttering Parse, the development platform that it purchased in 2013. While the company said they would keep the service online for a ...

Let's say I want to implement a parser that just spits out a serialized AST (JSON, XML, whatever's easy). The languages I'd be parsing would be lightweight markup languages like Markdown, RST, etc.

Programming computers used to be harder. Don’t get us wrong — today, people tend to solve harder problems with computers, but the fundamental act of programming is easier. We have high-level languages ...