CSLY vs Superpower

CSLY

a C# embeddable lexer and parser generator (.Net core) (by b3b00)

Parser Library dot-net C# Parser lexer-generator parser-generator Lexer expression-parser recursive-descent-parser grammar-rules mathematical-parser

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Superpower

A C# parser construction toolkit with high-quality error reporting (by datalust)

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CSLY		Superpower
	Project
2	Mentions	4
334	Stars	968
-	Growth	2.1%
9.0	Activity	0.0
about 11 hours ago	Latest Commit	almost 2 years ago
C#	Language	C#
MIT License	License	Apache License 2.0

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CSLY

Posts with mentions or reviews of CSLY. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-06-02.

June 2021 monthly "What are you working on?" thread
11 projects | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 2 Jun 2021

I am still working on CSLY, a parser generator for C#.
April 2021 monthly "What are you working on?" thread
22 projects | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 1 Apr 2021

first reddit post. i am working for some time now on a C# parser generator : CSLY I wanted a parser generator as easy to use as possible and compact enough. I ve succesfully used it professionaly as a mean to introduce scripting capabilities in a payroll software.

Superpower

Posts with mentions or reviews of Superpower. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-01.

I made a new filtering library for .NET projects
7 projects | /r/dotnet | 1 May 2023

Awesome little project you got going on there :) , I've done something similar with Ooze and extracted it to Ooze.Query later. I need to push them to nuget also when I catch some time (I jump back to it from time to time when I have some free space). Cool to see another person using parser construction libs. I see you used Sprache, I went for SuperPower for this situation.
how would you solve this? Filtering a db model from the api and persisting the filtration rules in a safe and db agnostic way
2 projects | /r/dotnet | 28 Oct 2022
GitHub - nreco/nlquery: Parser for end-user search-like queries and rule-based named entity recognition (NER) in context of tabular dataset schema.
3 projects | /r/dotnet | 29 Aug 2022
Would Someone ELI5 Parser Combinators?
5 projects | /r/csharp | 2 Aug 2022

Unfortunately I'm struggling. The first problem is choosing which combinator library to go with: Sprache, Superpower, Parlot, Pidgen, Lexepars, etc. etc. Some look simpler to use than others, others more performant, others come with useful parsers built in.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing CSLY and Superpower you can also consider the following projects:

Sprache - A tiny, friendly, C# parser construction library

Pidgin - A lightweight and fast parsing library for C#.

FParsec - A parser combinator library for F#

gaiman - Gaiman: Text based game engine and programming language

Recognizers-Text - Microsoft.Recognizers.Text provides recognition and resolution of numbers, units, date/time, etc. in multiple languages (ZH, EN, FR, ES, PT, DE, IT, TR, HI, NL. Partial support for JA, KO, AR, SV). Packages available at: https://www.nuget.org/profiles/Recognizers.Text, https://www.npmjs.com/~recognizers.text

imparse - Parser generator that can be used to quickly and succinctly define a parser definition, and to deploy an automatically-generated implementations thereof in multiple languages and on multiple platforms.

nlquery - Parser for end-user search-like queries and rule-based named entity recognition (NER) in context of tabular dataset schema.

Ooze - This package provides simple mechanism for applying filters, sorters, paging to your IQueryable<T> queries.