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I disagree with your "too much ceremony" premise in general, but in particular I don't think it holds true for nom parsers. Here are two examples I've been working on:

https://github.com/djc/askama/blob/master/askama_derive/src/...

https://github.com/djc/tokio-imap/blob/master/src/parser.rs

If you look at the parsing logic that makes up most of those files, I don't think you can reasonably argue there is a lot of ceremony going on.

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But I can, and I do; that's still too much noise for me. I'm sure the code is fine by Rust standards, but to me it looks like Perl with control issues. I don't need any help from my programming language with micromanaging the code I write or the way I write it. I'll ask when I want assistance, and until then I prefer if they stay the hell out of my way. I won't claim to write bug-free software; the only way to write bug-free software is to not write it at all; spending half my energy on sweet talking a psychotic compiler around every single detail is a perfect recipe for missing the bigger picture and ending up solving the wrong problems.

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