Pegged

> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/golang-dev/ZTD1qtpruA8... Everything in there listed as impractical in Go is possible in D without external tool, with just regular meta-programming: - generating parsers from grammar https://github.com/PhilippeSigaud/Pegged - embedding files as array of bytes: ubyte[] = import("file.jpeg"); - protobuf files at compile-time: https://github.com/msoucy/dproto - generating tables at compile-time with CTFE Instead of copying what works the Go leaders pretend it doesn't work.

> Everyone uses regexes; using a lexer generator should (in my opinion) be as easy as using a one-off regex. I think the key is to make the lexer generator an embeddable library like regex libraries are. There actually is a really powerful parser generator for D by Philippe Sigaud: https://github.com/PhilippeSigaud/Pegged It's much more pleasant to use than something like Boost Spirit. Somewhat relatedly, D's standard library has a compile time regex engine that compiles regular expressions down at compile-time resulting in some of the fastest regular expressions in the world.