combine | pest | |
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4 | 45 | |
1,300 | 4,640 | |
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4.7 | 6.7 | |
7 months ago | 23 days ago | |
Rust | Rust | |
MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
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combine
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Domain Specific Language embedded in Rust
Combine is also nice to use and actively developed.
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Hey Rustaceans! Got an easy question? Ask here (9/2022)!
https://crates.io/crates/combine is a decent alternative to Nom. I found it much easier to pick up. I was using it to implement our generalized placeholder syntax in SQLx (which I hope to actually finish at some point): https://github.com/launchbadge/sqlx/blob/a2eda2de2462876a160982e57d73103795e34aa2/sqlx-core/src/placeholders.rs
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Chumsky, a parser combinator crate that makes writing error-tolerant parsers with recovery easy and fun!
Nice to see support for error recovery with parser combinators! I never got to the point of adding it in combine as I swapped out my language parser(s) to use LALRPOP instead (implementing error recovery for it instead).
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Hey Rustaceans! Got an easy question? Ask here (42/2021)!
You may want to also look at some of the popular parser combinators like nom and combine. I don't think they do what you are suggesting, though.
pest
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Why I love Rust for tokenising and parsing
I'll throw in a plug for https://pest.rs/ a PEG-based parser-generator library in Rust. Delightful to work with and removes so much of the boilerplate involved in a parser.
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Rust clean-slate POSIX CLI utilities 0.2.1 release: Awk, M4, ftw and more
Would definitely be interesting, but from a cursory look at the repository, it doesn't look like squeezing the last percentage points of performance has been a priority yet.
Things that stand out:
- The `awk` implementation uses the Pest parser generator (https://pest.rs/), which is known to not generate the fastest possible parsers, but is great for getting up and running.
- They are using the `clap` crate for argument parsing, which is also known to not be the fastest, but again is very user friendly (for example, it does Unicode linebreaks in the output of `--help`). It's marginal, but for a tiny utility being invoked many times from a shell script, this can add up.
It's very probably "fast enough", and it makes sense to prioritize like this at this point, but people shouldn't use this expecting a performance improvement right now.
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Lo – simple WASM native language
Nice work. Out of curiosity, did you consider using pest (https://pest.rs/) to help build your parser? Or is it too much for what you are doing?
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nom > regex
And some related parser tools: - https://github.com/kevinmehall/rust-peg - https://github.com/pest-parser/pest - https://github.com/lalrpop/lalrpop
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Jasmine, A rust-like programming language that compiles to Java
I had recently completed the first year of my Computer Science class at school and will begin my second year soon. My schools' class forces the use of Java programming language, and I absolutely hated it. So, over the course of a little less than a month, I wrote my own programming language, in Rust (objectively best programming language), using pest, to be as similar to Rust as possible, but compiling to Java.
- Restoration of the pest3 work effort 🙌 · pest-parser/pest · Discussion #885
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What is the state of the art for creating domain-specific languages (DSLs) with Rust?
I second pest.rs. Using it is fairly intuitive and there's also a live playground on their website which is great for quickly developing and testing your AST (abstract syntax tree) parser for whatever language you're implementing.
- pest v2.6.0 released with a new meta-grammar feature (node tags)
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Finding a Crate to Help with Terminal Program Interface
This is where you'll run into trouble. People who write parsing-related Rust crates generally write things like pest that expect their syntax to be defined completely at compile time so the parser can be run through the compiler's optimizers for best performance.
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easy way to produce a parser
Give https://pest.rs a try.
What are some alternatives?
nom - Rust parser combinator framework
lalrpop - LR(1) parser generator for Rust
pom - PEG parser combinators using operator overloading without macros.
rust-peg - Parsing Expression Grammar (PEG) parser generator for Rust
chomp - A fast monadic-style parser combinator designed to work on stable Rust.
chumsky - Write expressive, high-performance parsers with ease.
git-journal - The Git Commit Message and Changelog Generation Framework :book:
rust-csv - A CSV parser for Rust, with Serde support.