Parsing library

[alehander92]

(From Nim community survey 2017)

[auxym]

A recent search on nimble yielded the following and led me to play a bit with the first, lilt. Here are my impressions.

lilt

• Relatively well documented
• Straightforward to use
• However, author has stated that it is buggy and they are not actively working on it see here

combparser

• Docs are not hosted anywhere
• Appears not to have seen a lot of development, based on number of commits and most recent commit.
• I have not however tried it.

[Quelklef]

Hello, I'm the author of Lilt. @auxym has linked to my current stance, but I want to reiterate it here. Because Lilt was originally created "just for fun", I stopped development once I realized I had nothing to use it for. However, I think the design of Lilt turned out quite nice and I would be open to continuing development if people want to use it.

[PMunch]

combparser works fairly well, it's used in my protobuf-nim project. Haven't developed much more on it since it's fairly complete in terms of functionality.

[tajmone]

The combparser project doesn't appear to bear an open source license.

[PMunch]

@tajmone, my bad, it's supposed to be MIT

[tajmone]

Thanks for the clarification @PMunch ! MIT is great, especially if it's going to become the base for a library that could make it to the official libraries.