Likely controversial opinion: Parser combinators are fun but feel a little too magic for me.

Maybe I’m being stubborn, but I prefer to write lexers and parsers by hand. Although, I would like to get around to writing a “common lexer and parser utility library” one day to abstract away some common patterns while simultaneously not forcing design decisions. Perhaps I’ll end up with a parser combinator library by the time I’m done and I’ll have to eat my words.