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.

There are few rites of programmer passage as iconic as writing your first parser. You might want to interpret or compile a scripting language, or you might want to accept natural-language-like ...

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.

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 ...

Not all that Facebook touches turns to gold. In a rare admission of defeat (if you can call it that), the social media giant has announced plans to shut down Parse, the mobile developer platform it ...

Heads-up, Chartbeat, one of your competitors is growing — and it’s growing fast. Parse.ly, an analytics platform used by several different news organizations, raised $6.8 million in Series B funding ...