Textmapper is a production-quality LALR parser generator that is capable of parsing the vast majority of modern languages. Stay tuned by following me on Twitter or GitHub.
Follow @textmapperTextmapper is a tool for language development. It takes a formal language specification (a grammar) and generates code to parse that language - a lexer/parser and a set of AST classes. Textmapper supports EBNF-like production rules and can map a grammar to an AST, or even derive an AST automatically from the grammar. This means you can get code transforming a sequence of characters into an AST without any additional coding work. Textmapper has a sophisticated scanner generator built-in.
Textmapper supports multiple target languages. By avoiding code in the grammar, Textmapper gives you exactly the same parsing functionality in different languages as well as clean and concise grammars. By default, the generated parser code has no runtime dependencies and contains all required algorithms.
The idea behind Textmapper was to come up with an easy-to-use, declarative tool for bottom-up parsing algorithms (like LALR, IELR or GLR), leveraging their power to the full. It is similar to what ANTLR is for LL languages. Textmapper was created with the belief that the bottom-up approach works better than top-down approaches in most cases, and the only reason people still tend to use the latter is the lack of proper tools. Textmapper is going to fill this gap.
Textmapper comes as a separate command-line tool with an extension for for Visual Studio Code.
Textmapper tool is distributed under the MIT License.