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0 pointsadgjlsfhk12y ago0 comments

the fact that the default on the web is to ship something that needs a parser is very silly.

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Depending on how you look at it, Java, .NET and WebAssembly all need parsers too, they just happen to be parsing a binary format instead of text.

adgjlsfhk1OP2y ago

yes, and technically so does x86, but there's a pretty big difference between formats where the data is normalized and expected to be correct and formats that are intended for users and need to do things like name resolution and error checking. Parsing a language made for machines is easy to do faster than you can read the data from ram, while parsing a high level language will often happen at <100mbps

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kevingadd2y ago

Depending on how you look at it, Java, .NET and WebAssembly all need parsers too, they just happen to be parsing a binary format instead of text.

adgjlsfhk1OP2y ago

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