parsec VS megaparsec

Compare parsec vs megaparsec and see what are their differences.

parsec

A monadic parser combinator library (by haskell)

megaparsec

Industrial-strength monadic parser combinator library (by mrkkrp)
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parsec megaparsec
12 3
831 892
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4.7 6.5
26 days ago about 1 month ago
Haskell Haskell
BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License
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parsec

Posts with mentions or reviews of parsec. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-15.
  • Revisiting Haskell after 10 years
    8 projects | dev.to | 15 Jan 2024
    Writing Haskell programs that rely on third-party packages is still an issue when it’s a not actively maintained package. They get out of date with the base library (Haskell’s standard library), and you might see yourself in a situation where you need to downgrade to an older version. This is not exclusive to Haskell, but it happens more often than I’d like to assume. However, if you only rely on known well-maintained libraries/frameworks such as Aeson, Squeleto, Yesod, and Parsec, to name a few, it’s unlikely you will face troubles at all, you just need to be more mindful of what you add as a dependency. There’s stackage.org now, a repository that works with Stack, providing a set of packages that are proven to work well together and help us to have reproducible builds in a more manageable way—not the solution for all the cases but it’s good to have it as an option.
  • Show HN: I wrote a RDBMS (SQLite clone) from scratch in pure Python
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Aug 2023
  • Just write the f*****g parser.
    4 projects | /r/programming | 12 Jan 2023
    The Parsec library for Haskell uses combinators, and there are a few good resources around the internet which explore it, if you know Haskell.
  • Summing polynomials in Haskell
    1 project | /r/haskell | 15 Oct 2022
    Parse the expression using parsec library ( if you're unfamiliar with it please check out https://hackage.haskell.org/package/parsec) it's a strong library for parer combinators. Once you parse the expression u need to define and sum up the similar terms. Check this example out - https://fpunfold.com/2020/05/18/making-a-calculator-in-haskell-with-parsec.html
  • Konbini: a new multiplatform parser library
    4 projects | /r/Kotlin | 10 Oct 2022
    Konbini is a functional parser combinator library inspired by Haskell parsing libraries like Parsec. It's (hopefully) fairly easy to use, and is about as performant as the better-parse library. In fact, it's quite similar to better-parse in many aspects. The main difference is in how parsers are composed. Where better-parse prefers operators and infix functions, Konbini instead uses plain functions.
  • Traverse/mapM for Computation Expressions
    1 project | /r/fsharp | 4 Oct 2022
    Hi everyone, I'm learning F# and currently trying to do a Parsec-like CE, just to get comfortable with computation expressions.
  • Is there good introduction to the parsec library for newbies?
    2 projects | /r/haskell | 9 Jun 2022
  • On a daily base in this sub
    5 projects | /r/ProgrammerHumor | 23 Jan 2022
    good libraries for parsing: parsec, attoparsec etc.
  • Unity to acquire Parsec for $320m
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Aug 2021
    Thank you! When I read the title I only knew about https://hackage.haskell.org/package/parsec, and for a moment I was very confused
  • Splitting html tags string into list of string
    2 projects | /r/haskell | 1 Jun 2021
    The more "idiomatic" way would be to use a parser library, e.g. parsec, attoparsec, or megaparsec. But even then I think it would be a lot easier to maintain if you could preserve the angle brackets <> in the input.

megaparsec

Posts with mentions or reviews of megaparsec. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-23.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing parsec and megaparsec you can also consider the following projects:

rustdesk - An open-source remote desktop, and alternative to TeamViewer.

attoparsec - A fast Haskell library for parsing ByteStrings

Sunshine - Self-hosted game stream host for Moonlight.

attoparsec-parsec - An Attoparsec compatibility layer for Parsec

sunshine - Host for Moonlight Streaming Client

trifecta - Parser combinators with highlighting, slicing, layout, literate comments, Clang-style diagnostics and the kitchen sink

pipes-attoparsec - Utilities to convert a parser into a pipe

parsec-parsers - Orphan instances so you can use `parsers` with `parsec`.

streaming-binary - Incremental serialization and deserialization of Haskell values.

makefile - Haskell Makefile parser