Or you could take the middle ground and use a library meant
to make it easier to create hand built parsers.
as opposed to a library that generates a parser for you.
This handles the repetitive parts such as lookahead functions
creation or Parse Tree building, while also providing advanced features such as error recovery or syntactic content assist (auto complete).
* ECMAScript family of languages supported (JavaScript/TypeScript/CoffeeScript).
* Repo: https://github.com/SAP/chevrotain
* Online Playground: http://sap.github.io/chevrotain/playground/
This handles the repetitive parts such as lookahead functions creation or Parse Tree building, while also providing advanced features such as error recovery or syntactic content assist (auto complete).
* ECMAScript family of languages supported (JavaScript/TypeScript/CoffeeScript).