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• A Grammar-First Approach to Parser Combinators in Rust
  3 projects | dev.to | 28 May 2026

  Rust already has well-established parser combinator libraries like nom and chumsky, so why build another one?

• Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (February 2025)
  105 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Feb 2025
• Parsing JSON in 500 lines of Rust
  8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Feb 2025

  And on a related note, this project was for educational purposes, but if the author wants to do more parsing in Rust, there's the excellent `nom` crate [1], which provides a JSON parser as an example [2].

  It uses a very similar paradigm to what the author used in the article, and provides a lot of helper utilities. I used it to parse a (very, very small) subset of Markdown recently [3] and enjoyed the experience.

  [1] https://github.com/rust-bakery/nom

  [2] https://github.com/rust-bakery/nom/blob/main/examples/json.r...

  [3] https://git.sr.ht/~bsprague/logseq-to-linkwarden

• Nom parser combinators now released in version 8, with a new architecture
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 31 Jan 2025
• Nom released 8.0: A byte-oriented, zero-copy, parser combinators Rust library
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Jan 2025
• Rust: Packages, Modules, Crates...Oh My!
  2 projects | dev.to | 7 Jan 2025

  To see these concepts in action, check out my repository Fun with Nom. It’s a project where I explored the Nom crate during a deep dive early in 2024.

• I'm Publishing Matanuska BASIC's ADRs
  6 projects | dev.to | 13 Dec 2024

  Part of that inspiration was learning about parser combinators, particularly Rust's nom library. Of course, parser combinators - particularly in Rust - presented a bit of a learning curve. But this incredible post by Bodil Stokke really helped me understand how they worked, and made me feel empowered. In fact, for small DSLs, I often use parser combinators - for instance, with ts-parsec in TypeScript and parsy in Python. If you want to dip your toes in and have a head for functional programming DSLs, this is a great direction to go in.

• Challenge accepted: announcing SurrealDB 2.0
  2 projects | dev.to | 17 Sep 2024

  Unlike the previous parser, which was based on the nom parser-combinator library, the new parser is an optimised recursive descent parser with a separate lexing step. This change allows for more efficient parsing by separating the tokenisation of the input from the parsing logic itself, streamlining the parsing process.

• Planespotting with Rust: using nom to parse ADS-B messages
  5 projects | dev.to | 28 Oct 2023

  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.

• Show HN: Rust nom parsing Starcraft2 Replays into Arrow for Polars data analysis
  10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Oct 2023

  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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