2025-08-18 20:50:02.707535+02 by Dan Lyke 2 comments
A few years ago, I rewrote my Perl markdown-ish parser in C++, with CMake build files, as a static site generator. Every once in a while I go to make changes and rebuild this thing, and every fucking time C++ or linking or the semantics of some library has changed.
Considering just going to C.
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#Comment Re: few years ago I rewrote my Perl made: 2025-08-19 01:20:49.255627+02 by: markd
it's kind of amazing how fast Swift sample code bitrots.
#Comment Re: few years ago I rewrote my Perl made: 2025-08-18 23:18:57.134312+02 by: spc476
I wrote my own markup language in Lua/LPEG, which is, to say, basically C. LPEG does have a learning curve, but I found it worth learning.
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