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		amluto on Jan 15, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Zig when there is already C++, D, and Rust? Have you ever used Boost?

lttlrck on Jan 15, 2021 [–]

First thing that came to mind was Boost Spirit: https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_48_0/libs/spirit/example/qi...

Lovely.

codeflo on Jan 16, 2021 | [–]

Ah, the memories: I once cut the compile time of a multi-million line C++ codebase by over 20%, just by removing one single-line use of Boost Spirit and replacing it with atoi.

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