Building good Ruby tooling is dependent on having a good parser. Today, it is difficult to use the CRuby parser to build tooling because of its lack of public interface and documentation. This has led to people using external gems and generally fragmenting the community.

The Yet Another Ruby Parser project is building a universal Ruby parser that can be used by all Ruby implementations and tools. It is documented, error tolerant, and performant. It can be used without linking against CRuby, which means it can be easily used by other projects.

This talk is about the YARP project's motivation, design, implementation, and results. Come to learn about the future of parsing Ruby.