rx VS hfst

Compare rx vs hfst and see what are their differences.

rx

Standalone version of Emacs' rx macro (by sulami)

hfst

Helsinki Finite-State Technology (library and application suite) (by hfst)
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rx hfst
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- 0.9%
3.1 4.0
6 months ago about 1 month ago
Rust C++
- GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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rx

Posts with mentions or reviews of rx. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-30.
  • A portable, modern regular expression language
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Dec 2022
    I had a similar kind of idea for a long time, which I put into action a few weeks ago via a standalone transpiler of Emacs' rx macro to common regexp syntaxes.[0] I ended up getting interrupted and didn't completely finish it, but it generally works, though is probably riddled with edge cases.

    The basic idea of rx is to use S-expressions to describe regular expressions, and my elevator pitch would've been to embed rx invocations in shell scripts using $(syntax), the main use case being something like sed invocations.

    I still think it's a neat idea, and complex regular expressions tend to be hard to parse for humans.

    [0]: https://github.com/sulami/rx

hfst

Posts with mentions or reviews of hfst. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-30.
  • A portable, modern regular expression language
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Dec 2022
  • Search-and-replace with correct grammatical case - does it exist?
    3 projects | /r/LanguageTechnology | 16 Sep 2021
    So you want to go from Spende to Spende+genitive to Beitrag+genitive to Beitrags. In addition to Spacy etc. you might look at Finite State Transducers, which I believe are bidirectional, i.e. for both analysis and generation. XFST and SFST and OpenFST are a few of the FST toolkits. See https://github.com/hfst/hfst for the Helsinki FST; there's a German transducer for it at https://sourceforge.net/projects/hfst/files/resources/morphological-transducers/hfst-german-installable.tar.gz/download. I don't think there is much of a learning curve, and there should be plenty of documentation.
  • Foldable Words
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Feb 2021
    The regex syntax is a bit quirky due to backwards compatibility with lexicons written in XFST, see https://github.com/hfst/hfst/wiki/Regular-Expression-Operato...

What are some alternatives?

When comparing rx and hfst you can also consider the following projects:

logstash-patterns - Grok patterns for parsing and structuring log messages with logstash

HFSM2 - High-Performance Hierarchical Finite State Machine Framework

fluent-plugin-grok-parser - Fluentd's Grok parser

lttoolbox - Finite state compiler, processor and helper tools used by apertium

common-regex - Most common regex

apertium - Core tools (driver script, transfer, tagger, formatters) for the FOSS RBMT system Apertium

oil - Oils is our upgrade path from bash to a better language and runtime. It's also for Python and JavaScript users who avoid shell!

simplenlg - Java API for Natural Language Generation. Originally developed by Ehud Reiter at the University of Aberdeen’s Department of Computing Science and co-founder of Arria NLG. This git repo is the official SimpleNLG version.

ReadableRegex.jl - regexes for people who don't really want to learn or read regexes

apertium-lex-tools - Module for compiling lexical selection rules and processing them in the pipeline.

kbnf - KBNF has been renamed to Dogma