> I’m not mocking it. I’m just applying the argument I see many people on HN make in discussions about rust to this case, where I suspect many will lean much more on the side of using regexes to reimplement parsers.

Hmm. Okay.

The part that bewilders me is that Rust showed up. Which would have made sense if someone was complaining about C++ or something, or maybe unsafe memory management. But regexes?

> Either way, I didn’t want to have a discussion about rust.

Which is why you brought it up unprompted... I give up.