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 alternative is Eclipse Xtext, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like ANTLR are Bison, Flex, Owl parser generator and parboiled.

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Eclipse Xtext
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3 alternatives to Eclipse Xtext
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...
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1. Extensible by Plugins/ExtensionsEclipse Xtext can be extended with add-ons, plugins and extensions.
2. AutocompletionEclipse Xtext can predict and complete the rest of a word or phrase you're typing.
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Bison
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GNU Bison, commonly known as Bison, is a parser generator that is part of the GNU Project. Bison reads a specification of a context-free language, warns about any parsing ambiguities, and generates a parser (either in C, C++, or Java) which reads sequences of tokens and decides...

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Flex
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Free • Open Source
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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...

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Owl parser generator
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7 alternatives to Owl parser generator
Owl is a parser generator which targets the class of visibly pushdown languages.

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parboiled
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Elegant PEG parsing in Java - lightweight, easy-to-use, powerful.

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dropincc.java
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4 alternatives to dropincc.java
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.

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textX
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Free • Open Source
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9 alternatives to textX
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.

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Ragel
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Free • Open Source
Windows
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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.
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Tunnel Grammar Studio (TGS)
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2 alternatives to Tunnel Grammar Studio (TGS)
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.

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