And so that’s our recap of parsers and parser combinators. We can already see the power in them, but as we said before, this is only the tip of the iceberg. There is so much left to explore, including generalization, performance, and invertibility. And we will get to all of that, but we want to do one more thing before ending the recap. So far we haven’t shown too much new stuff to those who were already caught up on our past episodes on parsing, so we’d like to show off something that everyone can get benefit from.

We will create a whole new complex parser from scratch, and it will push our current knowledge of parsers even further. We are going to write a parser that will process all of the logs that Swift spits out when running tests.