Ragel Alternatives

Ragel is described as 'Finite-state machine compiler and a parser generator targeting C, C++ and ASM. It can recognize byte sequences and execute code at arbitrary points in the process' and is an app in the development category. There are four alternatives to Ragel for Linux, Mac and Windows. The best Ragel alternative is ANTLR, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Ragel are Flex, textX and Owl parser generator.

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  1. ANTLR icon

    ANTLR

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    ANTLR (ANother Tool for Language Recognition) is a powerful parser generator for reading, processing, executing, or translating structured text or binary files.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     

  2. Flex

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    Flex (fast lexical analyzer generator) is a tool for generating scanners. A scanner, sometimes called a tokenizer, is a program which recognizes lexical patterns in text. The flex program reads user-specified input files, or its standard input if no file names are given, for a...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  4. textX icon

    textX

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    textX is a meta-language for building Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) in Python. It is inspired by Xtext.

    It will help you build your textual language easily. You can invent your own language or build a support for an existing textual language.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. Owl parser generator icon

    Owl parser generator

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    Owl is a parser generator which targets the class of visibly pushdown languages.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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