i have enjoyed combining instaparse and javelin

>instaparse I hadn't seen that before. Looks pretty interesting.

i love it

Have you tried clojure.spec at all? Are they in the same space?

@cjsauer I have used spec and current am the one adopting it for hoplon, it works well, however keep in mind the runtime overhead

cjsauer i haven't used it, different spaces tho. instaparse is about parsing strings, not clj data

instaparse creates a text parser from a grammar specification

clojure.spec is a type specification toolkit which allows for later data validation/generation

oh yeah, that's an important difference, the generative part

instaparse can parse strings given a grammar, not generate conformant strings

...altho i think an experimental fork of it can iirc

they’re both like regex on steroids

only instaparse is geared towards text

and spec towards data

i had a pretty awesome time last year making a simple compiler with instaparse + core.match, https://github.com/alandipert/lbbasic/blob/master/src/lbbasic/compiler.cljs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpixR_pwltQ shows it in action. i need to pick up on that again, so much fun