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lark-parser
lark
Python2018–2026
lark-parser / lark

lark

Lark is a parsing toolkit for Python, built with a focus on ergonomics, performance and modularity.

14Distinct people
17Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
6KGitHub stars
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What it is

Lark is a parsing toolkit for Python, built with a focus on ergonomics, performance and modularity.

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HN mentions by year17 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2018-08-23 17:18:51 UTC to 2026-07-19 18:41:52 UTC.

02462018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 3 submissions, 4 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

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20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC734
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110

What Hacker News says

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Some years ago I used the Python library Lark (https://github.com/lark-parser/lark) to parse my programming language. It lets you write your grammar in basically EBNF, builds parse trees (that you can automatically reduce by removing leaves for parentheses, for example) and generates standalone pure-Python LALR(1) parsers for your grammar. Back then, I had a blast with it, it was fast, super easy to use and just worked. Now it's got 5k stars and seems to be a mature and production-ready library. Thus, I vote Python: it has this amazing parser library, it's garbage-collected (no need to fiddle with memory allocations, like in C), it's dynamically typed (so you basically don't need to think about types at all), it now has a `match` statement (!) that makes it super easy to dissect your parse trees and abstract syntax trees.
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