Diego Pacheco Tech blog

This is not a production-ready neither serious parser, it's for pure fun! I was bored during one of the pandemics late nights watching Sam Rose's 3h parser video . So I decided to do something similar, inspired by Sam's video. Of course, I did not want to make a 3 hours video fighting Rust compiler - which is the ultimate reality but something shorter. The code is similar but I have few more operations like * and inc.  I also using a queue for Args not Stack so we can preserve ordering. So this is a cool way to learn rust because in the code we will be using Stack and Queue Data Structures and basics of borrow and ownership in rust. Let's get started!

Rust it's a very nice and powerful language. I believe Rust has a place beyond systems and hardware programming. I personally believe we will be seeing more and more Rust in the following years just like Go took some time to liftoff I believe Rust time is yet to come. Rust it's powerful because favors safe programming not only in sense of memory management but also combined with functional programming we can get the best of all words meaning: Safety, Productivity, Less code, Doing more with less, reducing complexity, and leverage engineering best practices. Today I want to show how easily we can write a cyclic state machine parser with Rust and without using any crates but really 100% on the standard language.  So Let's get started.