textX Alternatives

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   Ragel

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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

   

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   ANTLR

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   ANTLR (ANother Tool for Language Recognition) is a powerful parser generator for reading, processing, executing, or translating structured text or binary files.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (BSD-3-Clause)

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux

   

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   Eclipse Xtext

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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 typeApplication types

   • IDE
   • Code Editor

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux

   • United States

   

   

   

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   Flex

    1 like

   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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   GNU Bison

    1 like

   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

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Linux

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   dropincc.java

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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

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   Owl parser generator

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

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (MIT)

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux

   

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    parboiled

     1 like

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    

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    Tunnel Grammar Studio (TGS)

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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

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows

    

    

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