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Soroush Khanlou

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NSFormatter is an old API riddled with pits to fall into. It’s very expensive to create a formatter (or adjust its configuration) because it needs to load huge tables of data from ICU for different languages.

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Regexes vs. Combinatorial Parsing (2019)

Recently, I’ve been working on a music app that needs to get a musical sequence (like a melody) from the server to the client. To do this, we use a format called ABC. (You can read about how ABC music notation works here .) We chose ABC because it’s more readable than MIDI, it’s pretty concise, and it’s a standard, so…