Weird Lexical Syntax

1. spec

   1 13 607 9.7 Ruby

   The Ruby Spec Suite aka ruby/spec (by ruby)

   

   At one point there was an open source project to formally specify Ruby, but I don’t know if it’s still alive: https://github.com/ruby/spec

   Hmm, it seems to be alive, but based more on behavior than syntax.

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3. joe-syntax

   2 1 59 - Shell

   JOE (Joe's Own Editor) syntax coloring and highlighting files - improved ones

   

4. MPS

   3 3 1,578 9.9 JetBrains MPS

   JetBrains Meta programming System

   

   I also believe this, and we're actually about half way there via MPS <https://github.com/JetBrains/MPS#readme> but I'm pretty sure that dream is dead until this LLM hype blows over, since LLMs are not going to copy-paste syntax trees until the other dream of a universal representation materializes[1]

   1: There have been several attempts at Universal ASTs, including (unsurprisingly) a JVM-centric one from JetBrains https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community/blob/idea/24...

5. intellij-community

   4 110 17,730 10.0 Java

   IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition & IntelliJ Platform

   

   I also believe this, and we're actually about half way there via MPS <https://github.com/JetBrains/MPS#readme> but I'm pretty sure that dream is dead until this LLM hype blows over, since LLMs are not going to copy-paste syntax trees until the other dream of a universal representation materializes[1]

   1: There have been several attempts at Universal ASTs, including (unsurprisingly) a JVM-centric one from JetBrains https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community/blob/idea/24...

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