How to write your own language plugin for IDEA (part 1)

• intellij-rainbow-brackets

  19 4,329 7.9 Kotlin

  🌈Rainbow Brackets for IntelliJ based IDEs/Android Studio/HUAWEI DevEco Studio/Fleet

The class implements the interface - com.intellij.CodeInsight.daemon.impl.HighlightVisitor. The implementation can be viewed here. The coloring takes place in the com.github.izhangzhihao.rainbow.brackets method.visitor.RainbowHighlightVisitor#setHighlightInfo

• intellij-community

  101 16,567 10.0

  IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition & IntelliJ Platform

  

Java (in the code of IDEA)

• WorkOS

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• go-lang-idea-plugin

  2 4,569 0.0 Java

  Google Go language IDE built using the IntelliJ Platform

  

go-plugin (now this plugin is known as Goland)

• intellij-haskforce

  2 486 0.0 Java

  Haskell plugin for IntelliJ IDEA

Haskell

• intellij-erlang

  1 725 7.9 Java

  Erlang IDE

Erlang

• monkey-plugin

  2 3 3.6 Kotlin

Monkey plugin (in this article)

• intellij-frege

  2 39 0.0 Kotlin

  IntelliJ IDEA plugin for Frege language

  

It is required to declare a new language (examples in go-plugin, frege, monkey)

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• Grammar-Kit

  4 689 1.6 Java

  Grammar files support & parser/PSI generation for IntelliJ IDEA

  

In IDEA, code generation by the GrammarKit plugin is mainly used to create a parser. Unfortunately, there is not much documentation about it and it is only presented in Tutorial and HOWTO.

• JFlex

  1 574 4.3 Java

  The fast scanner generator for Java™ with full Unicode support

  

Perhaps, the easiest way to create a lexer for IDEA is to use JFlex. The GrammarKit plugin already contains implementation and allows you to generate a lexer from .bnf file or from .flex file (with more customization options). An example for the Monkey language can be viewed here, a more complex one for Frege - here.

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