April 2025 – Niall B's blog

Turning data into code

29 April 202530 April 2025 Niall

This week I’ve been working on support for my output template language in my on-line IDE. The IDE itself is basically a fairly old version of dock-spawn-ts, combined with Microsoft’s Monaco editor, with my own framework and configuration language. To… Read moreTurning data into code

Adding named matches to parser rules

15 April 202515 April 2025 Niall

One of the nice features of my early regular expression based parsers was that it was easy to get data out by defining sub-matches in the rules. For example, to match the start of a class (using PHP preg_match syntax,)… Read moreAdding named matches to parser rules