🇫🇷 From “Vingt et Un” to 21: Building a Lightning-Fast French Number Parser in Ruby
Ever tried to parse French numbers in your Ruby application? If you’ve worked with French text data, you know the pain: “quatre-vingt-quatorze” should become 94, “trois millions deux cent mille” should transform to 3,200,000, but good luck finding a performant solution that handles all the linguistic quirks of French numbers! That’s exactly the problem I…