That happy feeling when you replace some handwritten code with an off-the-shelf library.
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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!