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A survey of parser generator usage in major language implementationss: https://notes.eatonphil.com/parser-generators-vs-handwritten-parsers-survey-2021.html Most have a handwritten parser. GCC and Go moved from generated to handwritten. SQLite and Python <3.10 built their own parser generators!

Emacs survey results are out! Lots of interesting tidbits: people love magit, ivy and flycheck, and a striking number of respondents are fairly new to Emacs! This seems great for the health of the community.

The dhall survey has a ton of interesting feedback from users about why they use the language, what they use it for, and areas that need work. https://www.haskellforall.com/2020/02/dhall-survey-results-2019-2020.html It's a really great way of learning what needs polish on the official website too!