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Re:Visualizing Packrat Parsing by ogogmad on Friday February 16, 2024 @08:25PM (#39405379)
What's the future of parsers now that we have LLMs?

Don't get me wrong, certainly parser generators produce fast parsers. And we know that their behaviour is deterministic. LLMs have neither of those; however they can provide intelligent feedback.

I suppose that questions like mine are lazy, because the range of possible futures is enormous.

Re:Visualizing Packrat Parsing by kevingadd on Friday February 16, 2024 @09:10PM (#39405641)
As long as compilers exist, we will probably have parsers. And at present we need compilers in order to build the software that is used to run LLMs.