18th December 2025 - Link Blog
swift-justhtml. First there was Emil Stenström's JustHTML in Python, then my justjshtml in JavaScript, then Anil Madhavapeddy's html5rw in OCaml, and now Kyle Howells has built a vibespiled dependency-free HTML5 parser for Swift using the same coding agent tricks against the html5lib-tests test suite.
Kyle ran some benchmarks to compare the different implementations:
- Rust (html5ever) total parse time: 303 ms
- Swift total parse time: 1313 ms
- JavaScript total parse time: 1035 ms
- Python total parse time: 4189 ms
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