Parser and Lexer bike-shedding

• flex

  9 3,421 7.8 C

  The Fast Lexical Analyzer - scanner generator for lexing in C and C++ (by westes)

Some lexer generators (notably Flex) take input from a file handle by default. While you can always read a file into a string before passing it to the generated lexer, this is not seen as "the best" since you have to read in all the data into memory, which can be a lot.

• language-server-protocol

  121 10,675 8.7 HTML

  Defines a common protocol for language servers.

  

These algorithms can be very useful in editors (Tree-sitter is built into Atom) and IDE/language-server contexts, where the compiler must be able to parse and elaborate input extremely quickly.

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• Lark

  35 4,471 7.5 Python

  Lark is a parsing toolkit for Python, built with a focus on ergonomics, performance and modularity.

  

Have you looked at Lark recently?

• owl

  1 732 4.5 C

  A parser generator for visibly pushdown languages. (by ianh)

visibly pushdown parsing! it's one of the few techniques that can detect and report grammar ambiguity consistently

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