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WHY I LOVE RUST FOR TOKENIZING AND PARSING

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This developer used Rust to build a static analysis tool for SQLite SQL code called sqleibniz. Rust was great for tokenizing and parsing, thanks to its macro system which enables code deduplication for defining AST nodes. Rust was also great for writing table-driven tests and had good pattern-matching capabilities for handling character and token comparisons within the lexer and parser.