PEGTL

Very cool, and I like the name! I'd be interested in reading about how Matcheroni compares with PEGTL and Lexy. https://github.com/taocpp/PEGTL https://lexy.foonathan.net/

As a professional C++ programmer I feel we, as a group, are constantly under-estimating the complexity of tasks, and over-estimating what can get done with the standard library. C++ is a very powerful, unopinionated language, that gives you a lot of freedom to attack your problem domain the way you best see fit. If you're writing a networked application, don't use POSIX sockets, which have an API designed for C, go and find a higher level library. If you're parsing complex text formats, don't iterate over buffers with char*'s, go pick up PEGTL[0]. If you're working on graphs, or need to properly index in-memory data, go pick up Boost[1][2]. If you need a GUI, go pick up Qt. It's extremely common in C++, due to the lack of a universal package management solution, for people to try and "muddle through" and do shit themselves when it's far o

A list of modern C++ related resources can be found here: https://github.com/rigtorp/awesome-modern-cpp The list includes some powerful yet not excessively large libraries from which one can learn including: https://github.com/skypjack/entt https://github.com/taocpp/PEGTL https://github.com/fmtlib/fmt

Here's an existing compilation of such work: https://github.com/rigtorp/awesome-modern-cpp A couple of my personal favourite libraries that I consider modern: The Parsing Expression Grammar Template Library - https://github.com/taocpp/PEGTL Beast: HTTP and WebSockets in C++11 - https://github.com/vinniefalco/Beast

Gotta love Parsec for Haskell and pyparsing for Python. Some other awesome parsing libs: PEGTL - C++ Parsing Expression Grammar Template Library https://github.com/taocpp/PEGTL Parboiled - Java & Scala PEG Library https://github.com/sirthias/parboiled Nom - Rust parser combinator framework https://github.com/Geal/nom Nearley - JavaScript parser toolkit https://github.com/Hardmath123/nearley Neotoma - Erlang library and packrat parser-generator for PEGs https://github.com/seancribbs/neotoma

Well, an alternative approach might to not to couple parsing and state manipulation :) PEGTL does this. Approximately, you have a template parameter MyAction<> on the Parser<> template which in turn calls "MyAction<Rule>::apply (state)" when parsing of each rule is complete. It's a fantastic library. I highly recommend giving it a whirl. [0] https://github.com/ColinH/PEGTL/blob/master/doc/Actions-and-...