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> unfortunately many big brain school teach only parser generator tool. here grug usual love of tool is not: parser generator tool generate code of awful snakes nest: impossible understand, bottom up, what? hide recursive nature of grammar from grug and debug impossible, very bad according grug!

https://grugbrain.dev/#grug-on-parsing

Bob Nystrom has done us all a tremendous service by writing a wonderful book (easily top 5 programming books available) on recursive descent:

https://craftinginterpreters.com/



There are ups and downs to both, but damn, the grugbrain entry on microservices is brutal.




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