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Our compiler stack is in Haskell so we initially started with Parsec (parser combinator library) and then eventually switched to Happy (parser generator that Ha
by matijash 4y ago
Our compiler stack is in Haskell so we initially started with Parsec (parser combinator library) and then eventually switched to Happy (parser generator that Haskell uses itself) since at first we didn't have a formal grammar defined so that made us write a lot of code for every little addition to the language (it's a simple declarative DSL, https://github.com/wasp-lang/wasp https://github.com/wasp-lang/wasp).
The problem we're now facing with Happy is that it doesn't really have support for error recovery. We're trying to implement LSP so recovery is important in order to have proper syntax highlighting and error reporting in an IDE.
Wondering how well ANTLR covers this, I was quite surprised to find out that Happy has so little support for it.
- DylanSp 4y agoIIRC Happy (and Alex, the accompanying lexer generator) are pretty much straight ports of lex/yacc to Haskell; they predate some of the conveniences of newer parser generators like ANTLR.