Compilers: Parsing and structured editors links

By Wolfgang Keller
Originally published 2021-04-24
Last modified 2025-10-18

Parsing and structured editors

Laurence Tratt
- Laurence Tratt: Parsing: The Solved Problem That Isn't [published 2011-03-15T08:00; visited 2023-02-23T11:10:20Z]
- SDE (Syntax Directed Editing) as a potential alternative to parsing: Laurence Tratt: An Editor for Composed Programs [published 2014-08-20T08:00; visited 2023-02-23T11:12:07Z]:
  - Structure editor - Wikipedia [published 2023-01-30T06:15; visited 2023-02-23T11:24:28Z]
  - Somewhat related:
    - Syntax-directed translation - Wikipedia [published 2019-09-24T14:10; visited 2023-02-23T11:26:54Z]
    - Source Code in Database - Wikipedia [published 2021-08-23; visited 2023-02-23T12:57:59Z]
  - JetBrains MPS (Meta Programming System)
    - Wikipedia [en]: JetBrains MPS - Wikipedia [published 2023-02-09T13:59; visited 2023-02-23T23:11:29Z]
    - MPS: The Domain-Specific Language Creator by JetBrains [visited 2023-02-23T11:16:50Z]
    - The MPS Blog : Language workbench to create Domain-Specific Languages | The JetBrains Blog [visited 2023-02-23T13:01:37Z]
    - Learning ressources:
      - Learn MPS - MPS by JetBrains [visited 2023-04-01T21:57:35Z]
      - Fast Track to MPS - Ten steps to mastery | MPS [visited 2023-04-01T21:59:02Z]
      - Cogniterra
        
        Beginner
        
        free: JetBrains MPS for the impatient — Cogniterra [visited 2023-10-30T02:01:14Z]
        
        $99: JetBrains MPS Introductory Online Course — Cogniterra [visited 2023-10-30T02:01:32Z]
        
        Intermediate
        
        free: JetBrains MPS Elementary Course — Cogniterra [visited 2023-10-30T02:01:43Z]
        
        $149: JetBrains MPS Advanced Online Course — Cogniterra [visited 2023-10-30T02:02:00Z]
        
        Advanced
        
        free: JetBrains MPS coderules — Cogniterra [visited 2023-10-30T02:02:12Z]
      - Tutorials | MPS Documentation [visited 2023-10-30T01:53:22Z]
      - MPS User's Guide | MPS Documentation [visited 2024-03-24T00:50:43Z]
      - Textbook: Domain-Specific Languages in Practice: With JetBrains MPS. Deutschland, Springer International Publishing, 2021. Domain-Specific Languages in Practice: with JetBrains MPS | SpringerLink [visited 2023-02-23T12:53:42Z]
      - Screencasts: MPS screen-casts | MPS Documentation [last modified 2024-02-11; visited 2025-10-18T21:48:54Z]
      - Ressource collection: MPS Rocks [visited 2023-11-16T03:07:08Z]
    - Videos of sample projects: MPS Sample projects - YouTube [visited 2025-10-18T21:52:19Z]
- Laurence Tratt: Why We Need to Know LR and Recursive Descent Parsing Techniques [published 2023-01-17T08:00; visited 2023-02-23T11:12:23Z]
- Incremental Parsing
  - Structured Editing and Incremental Parsing
    - Laurence Tratt: Structured Editing and Incremental Parsing [published 2024-11-27T12:25; visited 2024-11-28T01:08:36Z]
    - Hacker News discussion: Structured Editing and Incremental Parsing | Hacker News [published 2024-11-27; visited 2024-11-28T01:07:41Z]
  - Links concerning Incremental Parsing of the article of the previous bullet point:
    - Tim A. Wagner's thesis: Tim A. Wagner; Practical Algorithms for Incremental Software Development Environments [published 1998-03-10; archived 2015-09-20; visited 2024-12-03T21:27:25Z] (local copy)
    - Lukas Diekmann's thesis (extensions and fixes for Tim A. Wagner's algorithms): Lukas Diekmann; Editing composed languages [published 2019-06; visited 2024-12-03T21:30:19Z] (local copy)
    - Extension of this work: Lukas Diekmann and Laurence Tratt; Default Disambiguation for Online Parsers
      - HTML version [published 2019-10; visited 2024-12-03T21:47:43Z]
      - PDF version [published 2019-10; visited 2024-12-03T21:49:12Z] (local copy)
Whatever [visited 2025-03-01T20:46:56Z] (blog of Jeff Smits; various blog articles about parsing topics)

Compilers: Parsing and structured editors links

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