Rascal - Grammar language

Rascal is an open source grammar language created in 2013.

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git clone https://github.com/usethesource/rascal

Rascal is an experimental domain specific language for metaprogramming, such as static code analysis, program transformation and implementation of domain specific languages. It is a general meta language in the sense that it does not have a bias for any particular software language. It includes primitives from relational calculus and term rewriting. Read more on Wikipedia...

Tags: grammarLanguage
Rascal is developed on GitHub and has 398 stars
There are at least 722 Rascal repos on GitHub
Early development of Rascal happened in https://github.com/usethesource
The Google BigQuery Public Dataset GitHub snapshot shows 99 users using Rascal in 107 repos on GitHub
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GitHub supports syntax highlighting for Rascal
rascal-mpl.org was registered in 2010
See also: (3 related languages) Linux, Unix, ANTLR

Example from Linguist:

module Syntax

extend lang::std::Layout;
extend lang::std::Id;

start syntax Machine = machine: State+ states;
syntax State = @Foldable state: "state" Id name Trans* out;
syntax Trans = trans: Id event ":" Id to;