A toolkit for defining programming languages and DSLs in Kotlin.

About

Even though programming languages are constantly evolving to provide new ways of expressing program code, tools for writing compilers seldom make use of these features, instead mimicking the interface of the old tools lex and yacc.

klang uses a completely new approach. Instead of defining the syntax of your language in a separate file, you can simply do everything in your regular Kotlin code.

This library revolutionizes the way you build software. Creating a DSL is as easy as including klang and writing a few lines of code.

Building

Because the library is still in early development, there are no artifacts in public repositories.

To build, you will first need to install the component klang-re:

$ git clone https://github.com/j-jzk/klang-re.git
$ cd klang-re
$ ./mvnw install  # saves klang-re.jar into the local Maven cache

Then you can build this library:

$ git clone https://github.com/j-jzk/klang.git
$ cd klang
$ ./gradlew build

The resulting JAR will be in klang/build/libs/klang-<version>.jar.

License

Licensed under the Mozilla Public License 2.0 (see LICENSE)