I'm glad someone noticed this, but ragel is a very niche tool; few people have heard of it! I believe my parser is the first complete description of a terminal output parser in FSM form, and that alone is quite valuable.
I'm glad someone noticed this, but ragel is a very niche tool; few people have heard of it! I believe my parser is the first complete description of a terminal output parser in FSM form, and that alone is quite valuable.
No it’s not.
https://www.vt100.net/emu/dec_ansi_parser
Paul Williams made this years (if not decades) ago, and it has been widely used by terminal emulator implementers.