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by asdasdasdasdwd 2377 days ago
BNF sounds like the standard approach. Are there any BNF parsers + generators usable from Javascript?
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bd82 2377 days ago
Some of the top of my Head:

  - Antlr (https://github.com/antlr/antlr4/blob/master/doc/javascript-target.md)

  - PegJS (https://github.com/pegjs/pegjs)

  - Nearley (https://github.com/kach/nearley)
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dmitriid 2377 days ago
PEG is another popular approach
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jerrysievert 2377 days ago
jison works fairly well, and is mostly compatible with bison.
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