The ANTLR mega tutorial

Parsers are powerful tools, and using ANTLR you could write all sort of parsers usable from many different languages. In…

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The important changes in the new ANTLR 4.6

After almost a year since the last major release, there is a new ANTLR version: 4.6. There are many news:…

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Kanvas: generating a simple IDE from your ANTLR grammar

What is an editor? An editor is, for me, the main tool I use for work. As a Language Engineer…

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How to create an editor with syntax highlighting for your language using ANTLR and Kotlin

What we are going to build In this post we are going to see how to build a standalone editor…

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Building and testing a parser with ANTLR and Kotlin

This post is part of a series on how to create a useful language and all the supporting tools. Building…

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Getting started with ANTLR: building a simple expression language

This post is the first one of a series. The goal of the series is to describe how to create a…

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On the need of a generic library around ANTLR: using reflection to build a metamodel

I am a Language Engineer: I use several tools to define and process languages. Among other tools I use ANTLR:…

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ANTLR and the web: a simple example

ANTLR on the web: why? I started writing my first programs on MS-DOS. So I am very used to have…

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ANTLR and Jetbrains MPS: Parsing files and display the AST usign the tree notation

Itemis did it again: they just released a new very cool plugin for Jetbrains MPS. This one permits to define new…

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