binrw
A Rust crate for helping parse and rebuild binary data using ✨macro magic✨. (by jam1garner)
nom
Rust parser combinator framework (by rust-bakery)
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| binrw | nom | |
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| 3 | 85 | |
| 479 | 9,007 | |
| - | 1.4% | |
| 8.2 | 6.5 | |
| about 1 month ago | 5 days ago | |
| Rust | Rust | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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binrw
Posts with mentions or reviews of binrw.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-13.
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How to write deserializer for custom binary protocol?
Serde can work but won't be easy, because It wants to deserialize everything. Take a look at the binrw crate(https://github.com/jam1garner/binrw) and define your binary layout with It, then you can actually create a wrapper which reads the file from any reader(be it a Cursor over the mmap'd slice or a file).
- Kaitai Struct: A new way to develop parsers for binary structures
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Post-Monomorphization Dead Code Elimination and Other Unwritten Blog Posts
Sure! The commit is here (I haven’t pushed the version of this commit I made on binread itself but the actual changes are identical)
nom
Posts with mentions or reviews of nom.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-28.
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Planespotting with Rust: using nom to parse ADS-B messages
Just in case you are not familiar with nom, it is a parser combinator written in Rust. The most basic thing you can do with it is import one of its parsing functions, give it some byte or string input and then get a Result as output with the parsed value and the rest of the input or an error if the parser failed. tag for example is used to recognize literal character/byte sequences.
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Show HN: Rust nom parsing Starcraft2 Replays into Arrow for Polars data analysis
I may be the only one not familiar, but nom refers to https://github.com/rust-bakery/nom which looks like a pretty handy way to parse binary data in Rust.
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Is this a good way to free up some memory?
Lots of people use nom for their parsing needs, but that's not the only game in town and there other options.
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What is the state of the art for creating domain-specific languages (DSLs) with Rust?
As much as I love nom as well as other parser combinator libraries, regex-based parsers, BNF/EBNF-based parsers, etc. I always end up going back to plain old text-based char-by-char scanners.
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What's everyone working on this week (22/2023)?
I am using nom / nom_locate to build the parser side because I've done a handful of other projects with it, and I plan to use tower-lsp to hook up the language server side.
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Tokenizing
Look into a parsing library such as https://github.com/rust-bakery/nom
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Something like pydantic but for just strings?
If we were in /r/learnrust I'd have recommended the nom crate for this.
- Nom: Parser Combinators Library in Rust
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lua bytecode parser written in rust
Thanks to the flexibility of [nom](https://github.com/rust-bakery/nom), it is very easy to write your own parser in rust, read [this article](https://github.com/metaworm/luac-parser-rs/wiki/Write-custom-luac-parser) to learn how to write a luac parser
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Should I revisit my choice to use nom?
I've been working on an assembler and right now it uses nom. While nom isn't great for error messages, good error messages will be important for this particular assembler (current code), so I've been attempting to use the methods described by Eyal Kalderon in Error recovery with parser combinators (using nom).
What are some alternatives?
When comparing binrw and nom you can also consider the following projects:
wuffs - Wrangling Untrusted File Formats Safely
pest - The Elegant Parser
hachoir - Hachoir is a Python library to view and edit a binary stream field by field
lalrpop - LR(1) parser generator for Rust
restruct - Rich binary (de)serialization library for Golang
combine - A parser combinator library for Rust
inlinable-dyn-extension-traits - An exploration into the various ways optional trait methods can be implemented in Rust.
pom - PEG parser combinators using operator overloading without macros.
Kaitai Struct - Kaitai Struct: declarative language to generate binary data parsers in C++ / C# / Go / Java / JavaScript / Lua / Nim / Perl / PHP / Python / Ruby
rust-peg - Parsing Expression Grammar (PEG) parser generator for Rust
Grammars - Grammars for Synalyze It! and Hexinator
chumsky - Write expressive, high-performance parsers with ease.