Ragel - Programming language

Ragel is an open source programming language created in 2007.

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17Years Old

66Repos

Download source code:

git clone https://github.com/bnoordhuis/ragel

Ragel is a finite-state machine compiler and a parser generator. Initially Ragel supported output for C, C++ and Assembly source code,. Although subsequently extended to support several other languages (said to be Objective C, D, Go, Ruby, and Java) this support of other languages was withdrawn . Read more on Wikipedia...

Tags: programming language
Ragel is developed on GitHub and has 156 stars
There are at least 66 Ragel repos on GitHub
Early development of Ragel happened in https://github.com/bnoordhuis/ragel/issues
Ragel is written in C++, Make, Bourne shell, Vim script, awk, M4, OCaml, Tex, Ruby, Lex
The Google BigQuery Public Dataset GitHub snapshot shows 295 users using Ragel in 317 repos on GitHub
Pygments supports syntax highlighting for Ragel
See also: (9 related languages) C, D, Go, Ruby, Java, Regular Expressions, ASCII, XUML, Umple

Example from the web:

=begin
%%{
  machine simple_scanner;

  action Emit {
    emit data[(ts+8)..(te-7)].pack('c*')
  }

  foo = 'STARTFOO' any+ :>> 'ENDFOO';
  
  main := |*
    foo => Emit;
    any;
  *|;
}%%
=end


# Scans a file for "STARTFOO[...]ENDFOO" blocks and outputs their contents.
#
# ENV['CHUNK_SIZE'] determines how much of the file to read in at a time, allowing you to control memory usage.
#
# Uses ragel's scanner functionality even though it's not strictly necessary.
class SimpleScanner
  attr_reader :path

  def initialize(path)
    @path = path
    %% write data;
    # % (this fixes syntax highlighting)
  end

  def emit(foo)
    $stdout.puts foo
  end
  
  def perform
    # So that ragel doesn't try to get it from data.length
    pe = :ignored
    eof = :ignored

    %% write init;
    # % (this fixes syntax highlighting)

    leftover = []
    
    File.open(path) do |f|
      while chunk = f.read(ENV['CHUNK_SIZE'].to_i)
        data = leftover + chunk.unpack('c*')
        p ||= 0
        pe = data.length

        %% write exec;
        # % (this fixes syntax highlighting)
        if ts
          leftover = data[ts..pe]
          p = p - ts
          ts = 0
        else
          leftover = []
          p = 0
        end
      end
    end
  end
end

s = SimpleScanner.new ARGV[0]
s.perform

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Integers	✓	# [+-]?[0-9]+
Hexadecimals	✓	# 0x[0-9A-Fa-f]+
Comments	✓	# A comment
Line Comments	✓	# A comment	#
Semantic Indentation	X