It is official; Chris Double now confirms: parser combinators are dying.
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered parser combinators community when IRC confirmed that parser combinators market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all parsers. Coming close on the heels of a recent Chris Double survey which plainly states that parser combinators has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. parser combinators are collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent regular expression comprehensive parsing test.
You don't need to be a Doug Coleman to predict parser combinators's future. The hand writing is on the wall: parser combinators faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for parser combinators because parser combinators are dying. Things are looking very bad for parser combinators. As many of us are already aware, parser combinators continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
All major surveys show that parser combinators has steadily declined in market share. parser combinators are very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If parser combinators are to survive at all it will be among language dilettante dabblers. Parser combinators continues to decay. Nothing short of a cockeyed miracle could save parser combinators from its fate at this point in time. For all practical purposes, parser combinators are dead.
Fact: parser combinators are dying.