Plurrrr

This post is a direct response to Which Parsing Approach?. If you haven’t read that article, do it now — it is the best short survey of the lay of the land of modern parsing techniques. I agree with conclusion — LR parsing is the way to go if you want to do parsing “properly”. I reasoned the same a couple of years ago: Modern Parser Generator.

However, and here’s the catch, rust-analyzer uses a hand-written recursive descent / Pratt parser. One of the reasons for that is that I find existing LR parser generators inadequate for production grade compiler/IDE. In this article, I want to list specific challenges for the authors of LR parser generators.

SQL window functions are one of those topics that never quite clicked for me in the abstract, but I’ve been able to take advantage of them on a few recent projects and wanted to share some of what I’ve learned.

According to a Google study, 40% of people abandon a website that takes more than 3 seconds to load and a 1-second delay in page response can result in a 7% reduction in conversions. Yes, every second matters! And we saved around 2.5 seconds (90th percentile) and 1.2 seconds (50th percentile) by using Brotli compression over gzip compression for our Javascript and CSS files.