ANTLR Alternatives

ANTLR is described as '(ANother Tool for Language Recognition) is a powerful parser generator for reading, processing, executing, or translating structured text or binary files' and is an app in the education & reference category. There are nine alternatives to ANTLR for Windows, Linux and Mac. The best ANTLR alternative is Ragel, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like ANTLR are Eclipse Xtext, GNU Bison, Flex and Owl parser generator.

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  1. Ragel icon
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    Ragel is a finite-state machine compiler and a parser generator targeting C, C++ and ASM. It can recognize byte sequences and execute code at arbitrary points in the process.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
    • Ragel is the most popular Windows alternative to ANTLR.

    • Ragel is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to ANTLR.

    • Ragel is Free and Open SourceANTLR is also Free and Open Source
  2. Eclipse Xtext icon
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    Xtext is an open-source framework for developing programming languages and domain-specific languages (DSLs). Unlike standard parser generators, Xtext not only generates a parser, but also a class model for the Abstract Syntax Tree and a fully featured, customizable Eclipse-based...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    • Eclipse Xtext is the most popular Mac & Linux alternative to ANTLR.

    • Eclipse Xtext is Free and Open SourceANTLR is also Free and Open Source
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    Generates LALR(1), canonical LR(1), or IELR(1) parsers from formal grammar input, detects ambiguities, provides syntax error handling, integrates with existing code, and supports C, C++, or Java code output for compiler development and more.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    Flex (fast lexical analyzer generator) is a tool for generating scanners. A scanner, sometimes called a tokenizer, is a program which recognizes lexical patterns in text. The flex program reads user-specified input files, or its standard input if no file names are given, for a...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    Owl is a parser generator which targets the class of visibly pushdown languages.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. parboiled icon
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    Elegant PEG parsing in Java - lightweight, easy-to-use, powerful.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    dropincc.java - A small and easy to use parser generator. Specify your grammar in pure java and compile dynamically. Especially suitable for DSL creation in java.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. textX icon
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    textX is a meta-language for building Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) in Python. It is inspired by Xtext.

    It will help you build your textual language easily. You can invent your own language or build a support for an existing textual language.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Tunnel Grammar Studio is an Integrated Development Environment for generating parsers (also known as parser generator or a compiler compiler). It is used to develop stand alone Parsing Machines from given ABNF syntax grammar.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
    • Tunnel Grammar Studio (TGS) is the most popular commercial alternative to ANTLR.

    • Tunnel Grammar Studio (TGS) is Paid and ProprietaryANTLR is Free and Open Source
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