Parsing algebraic expressions is always a pain. If you need to compute, say, 2+4*2, the answer should be the same as (2 + (4 *2)), not ((2 + 4) * 2) — in other words, the right answer is 10, not 12.

One year ago Facebook made the surprising announcement that it was shuttering Parse, the development platform that it purchased in 2013. While the company said they would keep the service online for a ...

Facebook is shutting down Parse, its tool for helping developers build and grow mobile apps, in a surprise move that comes a day after Facebook delivered blockbuster fourth-quarter financial results.

Let's say I want to implement a parser that just spits out a serialized AST (JSON, XML, whatever's easy). The languages I'd be parsing would be lightweight markup languages like Markdown, RST, etc.

Answer by Listiarso Wastuargo, Generalist at Parse, Software Engineer at Facebook, on Quora, Parse has merged itself pretty well with Facebook. We're just another team, we share resources, we work ...

Facebook is shutting down Parse, its tool for helping developers build and grow mobile apps, in a surprise move that comes a day after Facebook delivered blockbuster fourth-quarter financial results.