Modern C++ vs. The World: How Would Your Language Parse a Word Document?

Modern C++ isn’t dying. It’s eating file formats for breakfast.

Here’s what MS Word document parsing looks like today :

std::filesystem::path("data_processing_definition.doc")

    | content_type::detector{}

    | office_formats_parser{}

    | PlainTextExporter()

    | out_stream;



ensure(out_stream.str()) ==

    "Data processing refers to the activities performed on raw data...";

No COM, no Windows-only hacks, no XML archaeology - just a clean, composable pipeline in modern C++.

So now I’m genuinely curious: If this is what parsing looks like in modern C++, what does it look like in your favorite language?

Drop your snippet below.