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, Bison, Flex and Owl parser generator.

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ANTLR (ANother Tool for Language Recognition) is a powerful parser generator for reading, processing, executing, or...

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ANTLR alternatives page was last updated Mar 6, 2023
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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.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Ragel Features

    1.  State machine

    Ragel VS ANTLR

     
    • 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...

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application types

    Country of Origin

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Eclipse Xtext Features

    1.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    2.  Autocompletion
    3.  Java based
    4.  Java IDE

    Eclipse Xtext VS ANTLR

     
    • 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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    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...

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Linux

    Bison VS ANTLR

     
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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...

    4 Flex alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Linux

    Flex VS ANTLR

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

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Owl parser generator VS ANTLR

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

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    parboiled VS ANTLR

     
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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.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    dropincc.java VS ANTLR

     
  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.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    textX VS ANTLR

     
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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.

    License model

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Tunnel Grammar Studio (TGS) VS ANTLR

     
    • 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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