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ANTLR vs Ragel

A side-by-side look at ANTLR and Ragel. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

ANTLR

ANTLR

Development

ANTLR (ANother Tool for Language Recognition) is an open source parser generator for reading, processing, executing, or translating structured text or binary files. It's useful for building languages, tools, and frameworks.

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Ragel

Ragel

Development

Ragel is a state machine compiler that lets developers write state machines using a compact syntax. It can then generate C or C++ code to execute the state machines efficiently at runtime.

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