There is a question that many people take as a sign that the questioner does not understand the subject at all. Some people even find it enraging. The question is usually in the form What is the best X? What is the best car? What is the best programming language? But at the same time it […]
If you need to parse a language, or document, from Java there are fundamentally three ways to solve the problem: use an existing library supporting that specific language: for example a library to parse XML building your own custom parser by hand a tool or library to generate a parser: for example ANTLR, that you can […]
Object Oriented Programming (OOPS or OOPS for Object Oriented Programming System) is the most widely used programming paradigm today. While most of the popular programming languages are multi-paradigm, the support to object-oriented programming is fundamental for large projects. Of course OOP has its share of critics. Nowadays functional programming seems the new trendy approach. Still, […]
According to their definitions, the difference between a compiler and an interpreter seems clear enough: interpreter a program that directly executes instructions written in a programming language compiler a program that transforms source code in a low(er)-level language If you dig deeper, though, you might find some blurring between the two. In fact an interpreter could translate […]
Here it is a new guide, to collect and organize all the knowledge that you need to create your programming language from scratch. Creating a programming language is one of the most fascinating challenge you can dream of as a developer. The problem is that there are a lot of moving parts, a lot of […]
In a previous post we have seen how the Language Server Protocol can be a game changer in language development: we can now build support for one language and integrate it with all the IDEs compatible with this protocol. In this article we are going to see how easy is to build support for the DOT Language in Visual […]
Parsers are powerful tools, and using ANTLR you could write all sort of parsers usable from many different languages. In this complete tutorial we are going to: explain the basics: what a parser is, what it can be used for see how to setup ANTLR to be used from Javascript, Python, Java and C# discuss […]
The Language Server protocol is used between a tool (the client) and a language smartness provider (the server) to integrate features like auto complete, goto definition, find all references and alike into the tool. from Language Server Protocol In other words, it is a standard way to communicate between editor and language tools, like linters, […]
Let’s say you need to automatically port some code from one language to another, how are going to do it? Is it even possible? Maybe you have already seen a conversion between similar languages, such as Java to C#. That sounds much simpler in comparison. In this article we are going to discuss some strategies […]
It happens to the best of us, you are writing some code in a Language that you use sporadically and you start asking yourself what is the correct syntax for this or that. You know many languages and you start wondering how do you iterate the elements of a collection? Is it foreach, for .. in or something […]