Resrap – A Parser but in Reverse

What it does

Resrap is a seedable, grammar-based code snippet generator . Instead of parsing code, it generates code from formal grammars — producing endless, realistic-looking (or hilariously nonsensical) snippets. It works with any language that can be described with a grammar (even English if you like!) and is perfect for: Resrap now also supports probabilistic and infinitely repeatable grammars via the ABNF (Awesome BNF) format — see full reference . Resrap reads a grammar and builds a graph of expansions . It then randomly traverses the graph (or deterministically with a seed) to produce snippets that follow the grammar's syntax rules. ABNF (Awesome BNF) is a lightweight, custom grammar format…from resrap.osdc.dev

In the maker’s words, at launch

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…

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