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> Rust seems to be good for language designers thanks to a combination of features

Not only the type system is quite nice, the ecosystem is full of nice crates:

  - lexing: logos
  - parsers: rust-peg / lalrpop / nom
  - utilities: string-interner / linecol / snailquote

I came cross this post when I was working on my own LISP parser :) Very cool

Though personally I think writing LISP interpreters with parser libraries should be considered sacrilege

> Though personally I think writing LISP interpreters with parser libraries should be considered sacrilege

Agreed, though the point of the article was to explore the Rust ecosystem. When learning, a little bit of blasphemy isn't a bad thing :)