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		skitter on June 14, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rewriting the Ruby parser I think a bigger difference is that the XML is parsed by a Ruby program and the generated Ruby code is parsed by a C program.

RhodesianHunter on June 14, 2023 [–]

Using something like protobuf would have required fewer steps and adhered to a standardized format.

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