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by tjarratt 4337 days ago
I'd be really delighted if you could show me a better tool for writing a parser, given a grammar in Golang than goyacc. You're absolutely right that the error reporting in yacc isn't that modern, but it's very functional, very powerful and (best of all), a lot of people have experience with it.

I certainly couldn't find any better tools in Golang when I started, but I wouldn't be surprised if someone had started one since.

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Tools like ANTLR, for example.

Parser generators based in attribute grammars is another example.

The language is called Go.