Whether you design languages and DSLs, parse or document data formats, or publish APIs, DiaGrammar is your new best friend. Users want to understand your design quickly. Diagrams foster understanding, communication, and adoption. Today’s stakeholders demand that designs are thought-out, documented, and tested. You need to look professional. More than that, you need to be professional.
Don’t hack, design. Don’t hope, test. Don’t guess, understand. Then show everyone what you’ve got. Live coding is the best, most productive way to do this. You get immediate feedback, see and fix problems instantly, and work as fast as you can think.
Do you design before you code? Do you wish you had time to document things professionally? Do you suffer the pain of keeping docs in sync with design changes? Us too.
DiaGrammar generates syntax diagrams, live, as you write your grammar. There’s no need to switch gears. Write your grammar and your diagrams are already done, and always in sync.
parse
dialect, ABNF, McKeeman,
RegEx, YACC, and more. While Red’s parse
dialect is the most powerful, allowing
you to parse at the datatype level, and include actions directly, DiaGrammar lets you
use what you already have. If you write RFCs for the W3C or IETF, you’re going to use
ABNF. If you teach college CS course, you may use YACC or Bison. Developers in many
cases use regular expressions, which can be hard to understand once written. With
DiaGrammar, you can compare two regex patterns to see if they generate the same
diagram, or how they differ.
parse
dialect, your grammar interpreter is already done. You can add actions, set markers, extract content, and more. If you prefer ABNF or another grammar, you still have to write the code in another programming language to process it. DiaGrammar can help. It can convert some metagrammars to Red parse
rules automatically.