Inspiration for rable

[mpecan]

Hello @ldayton!

I wanted to share rable and thank you very much for the inspiration you gave me to build it.

The idea came because @orgoj created an issue in the Tokf repository about improving the Bash parsing. I couldn't include your great project in it because it would bring in a dependency that would be hard to manage in the future, so instead I had Claude work with your test cases to get to "parity" on parsing and am using your oracle changes to continue closing the gap to the actual Bash parser.

This is a thank you issue, nothing to do here. I have also included Python bindings in rable and published it on pypi should you find it useful.

Thanks again!

[ldayton]

Hey, very nice work. I've been working hard on Tongues, recently completing a major refactor to give it a well-defined intermediate representation. Rust is a high-priority language for Tongues, so you may have competition soon ;-) Parable isn't perfect. Yet. You'll notice the fuzzer produces some mis-parses. The lexing/parsing boundary in bash is extremely difficult. But it's already at the point that it's damn near 100% complete for all real-world bash. When Tongues is back to compiling Parable, I'll return and try to shake out the last remaining discrepancies with bash.

[mpecan]

I am using your fuzzer to keep improving rable (I have seen Tongues, it is a really interesting project and something I have been thinking of in my head for some time).

Looking forward to seeing more from it.