ANTLR Alternatives

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.

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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.

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.

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.