Here I document decisions I took in this project, and the rationale behind them.
Alias: q3 = Quake 3 Arena.
Disconnected players aren't shown in the summary.
There is no unique ID for each player, so, if we show disconnected players and a player reconnects, they might get duplicated in the scoreboard.
pasoqa3 runs instantly in --release for big logs.
I focused on code simplicity and clarity over premature optimizing.
I didn't use a parser library because it would be counter-productive and add unnecessary complexity.
q3 logs are simple to parse, and we don't need to fully parse them.
There are conditional compilation directives in q3's source code which cause IDs to change between compiled versions.
With that in mind, I chose to grab the weapon names instead.
Within the semantics of serde::Deserialize, you can either succeed or fail at parsing a document.
pasoqa3 ignores most messages and performs "partial parsing", which doesn't match serde::Deserialize semantics.
Summary building is separated from the parser.
The Event enum can be thought off as the "Intermediate Representation" or "AST" of traditional language parsing projects.