> But remember that the articles arguing for recursive descent parsers are arguing against the long-dominant paradigm of using LR parsers

That was part of my question I think. I wouldn't have been able to tell you that the dominant paradigm being argued against was LR parsers, because I've never come across even one that I'm aware of (I've heard of them, but that's about it). Perhaps it's academia where they're popular?

I did learn about LR parser generators first in my Compilers class in college, but I assumed they were generally known about in language development communities.