Ask HN: Best resources for learning about commercial “IDE grade” parsers
The fact that neither the traditional CS curriculum nor the research literature covers "real world, production-grade" parsers - especially ones suitable for use in commercial IDEs - has come up repeatedly on HN. That begs the question: are there resources that do? This is not a question about how lexing and parsing works, the merits of parser generators and specific grammars, the implementation of canonical parsers, or codebase examples, e.g., JetBrains community edition. It is a question about design patterns for practical concerns like evolution and maintainability, generating great error messages, operating incrementally, and remaining snappy when used on real (not pathological) PL sources. Thanks!
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