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24 alternatives to Resrap – A Parser but in Reverse
I built Resrap, a Go package that takes a grammar in ABNF format and generates infinitely long sequences of syntactically correct code...either completely randomly or with seeds for a deterministic generation. ABNF is a modified version of EBNF(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_Backus%E2%80%93Naur_f...) I made for this project, basically means you can specify when generating code 20% of lines will be if{} blocks and 50% will be while{} blocks which allows for more natural code generation, plus support for infinite generation of code. It’s very fast...it generated ~40…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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An example of PEG usage. Contribute to sebcat/move-literals development by creating an account on GitHub.
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2017 · craftinginterpreters.com · its alternatives →
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An implementation of a dynamic programming language in Rust. Includes: Parser/Compiler, REPL, Virtual Machine, Bytecode Disassembler This started out as a learning project to teach myself Rust. It has grown into a decently substantial piece of software and I've learned quite a bit in the process! Some neat things: + A garbage collector that can store dynamically sized types without any double-indirection (i.e. I have my own Box implementation with manual alloc/dealloc) + The smart pointer used to reference GCed data is a thin pointer. The ptr metadata needed for DSTs is stored in…
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 4CD
2012 · scattered-thoughts.net · its alternatives →
- 5GI
Hi all! I'm going into my freshman year, and figured that the best way to prepare for the intro to programming Racket course would be to implement my own garbage-collected, dynamically typed, functional programming language in C ;) Anyways... here's the repo: https://github.com/liam-ilan/crumb I started learning C over the summer, so I still have a whole lot to learn... Any feedback would be greatly appreciated! :D
2023 · its alternatives →
- 6IC
AntiLang is an interpreted programming language written in Go. The basic idea of this is to keep all the logical parts of a language same, but reverse the structure of it. The idea for this project came when I was having a long midnight conversation with my friend and thought of writing such a weird language. The initial draft was far worse than the current implementation; we thought of reversing the brackets and the language would be read from bottom to top. I'm happy that I dropped that idea Technical details: As the interpreter is written in Golang, I compiled it to WASM, and the whole…
2025 · siruscodes.github.io · its alternatives →
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The Elegant Parser. Contribute to pest-parser/pest development by creating an account on GitHub.
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 8ID
2013 · rhoscript.com · its alternatives →
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Regex syntax and resources to power up your programming
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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This is a hobby project of mine that I started a few years ago to learn about programming language implementation. It was created 95% without AI, although a few recent commits include code from Gemini CLI. I started out following Crafting Interpreters, but gradually branched off that until I had almost nothing left in common. Tech stack: Rust, Cranelift (JIT compilation), LALRPOP (parser). Original title: "A small programming language where everything is a value" (edited based on comments)
Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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* https://sparser.io * https://github.com/Unibeautify/sparser This is my attempt at creating a universal language parser. It attempts to solve a couple of problems: * Support multiple languages * Recursively extend support to languages embedded within other languages * Output a uniform format for all supported languages This is a personal project so any feedback would be helpful. Something interesting I found after I built it is that this parser is not as fast to write output as many other JavaScript parsers, but its output is much faster to read from due to the…
2019 · its alternatives →
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Lisp-like-R: A clojure inspired lisp that compiles to R in R - dirkschumacher/llr
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2022 · lambdaway.free.fr · its alternatives →
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See what it’s like to program in a language without null.
2015 · books.thoughtbot.com · its alternatives →
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Rev-dep is a dependency analysis and optimization CLI for JavaScript and TypeScript projects. It helps answer questions like: where is this file used, what are the entry points, are there circular dependencies, and which files or node_modules are unused. I recently rewrote it from scratch in Go to focus on performance and low memory usage. On large codebases (500k+ LOC), circular dependency detection runs in a few hundred milliseconds and is up to 175x faster than Madge in my benchmarks. Feature-wise it overlaps partially with tools like madge, dpdm, skott, and dependency-cruiser, but aims…
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Wrote this to learn more about the `chumsky` parser combinator library, rustyline, and the `ariadne` error reporting crate. Such a nice DX combo for writing new languages. Still a work in progress, but I thought I'd share :)
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Language Lego. Contribute to ayoungprogrammer/Lango development by creating an account on GitHub.
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 18LP
Hi! I am doing a learning project, attempting to build an imperative language (and interpreter). The end product will be useless for others, I just want to learn and better understand how to build imperative languages. :) If someone else shares this interest and want to give some good hints on good resources I would be grateful. Currently I am looking at an awesome text by Bob Nystrom. All suggestions and tips on resources are most welcome. I am very much a beginner in this, but I find this topic very fascinating. Mail me or post links here! Cheers! You can try a beta version Online at…
2020 · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! Erik here from banana.dev We’ve trained a small(ish) language model on structured extraction, and today we’re launching a playground for it at https://anythingtojson.com. Give it a try! This model continues our work on structured generation, following last week’s launch of Fructose[1], a python client for strongly-typed LLM responses. There seem to be two distinct halves of the problem intended to be solved by Fructose and structured generation: 1. the reasoning ability of the model, such as performing chain of thought, creative acts, and natural language tasks. In a way,…
2024 · anythingtojson.com · its alternatives →
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JSON AST > Clojure. Contribute to quadracollision/llmisp development by creating an account on GitHub.
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Took a stab at building my own string diffing JS package. I built an interactive demo for TypeIt’s website (https://typeitjs.com/build-your-own) a while back. The approach I took to handle user input necessitated a way to calculate the difference between the versions of a user’s text input. I searched around for a package to help me out and found a couple of good ones (like fast-diff), but I either didn’t really like their API or didn’t want to take on a huge new dependency. Instead, I thought I’d give it a shot myself (famous last words). I dove into it having no real formal…
2022 · its alternatives →
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Antilisp is a Lisp designed for code generation in non-lisp languages. The interpreter is written in RPython, and the language is designed for easy adoption by non-lispers. The project is still young, but the language can be played with if you don't mind missing some important features like modules and pattern matching. I have not published the source code yet, because I am not completely sure how to base a sustainable business on this project and I don't want to risk having to rugpull after raising expectations.
2025 · antilisp.com · its alternatives →
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llama.cpp added context-free grammar guided generation functionality. It requires passing a file in a derivative of BNF notation, which gets messy very quickly for things like JSON. To improve the experience, we built a small compiler from TypeScript interfaces to the grammar file format and have it hosted in a little browser app. See more in discussion at https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/discussions/2494
2023 · grammar.intrinsiclabs.ai · its alternatives →
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Efficient and general syntactical decoding for Large Language Models - structuredllm/syncode
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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