So under the advice to use megaparsec instead of parsec, I tried the examples here: https://mrkkrp.github.io/megaparsec/tutorials/fun-with-the-recovery-feature.html

Got a page full of errors starting:

fpl.hs:42:20: Not in scope: ‘<$>’ …
    Perhaps you meant one of these:

On a hunch I changed
import Control.Applicative (empty)

to
import Control.Applicative

and then it started working.
I can only expect that if megaparsec's own official tutorials are thus out of sync with current haskell, then parsec's will be even more so.


Also I find no megaparsec on hoogle/hayoo

So how does one go about handling the dilemma:

  - megaparsec : in development but undocumented on hayoo/hoohle

  - parsec : documented but bitrotten

What/how do haskell pros go about handling such

Thanks

Rusi