re2c now supports Go

[skva...@gmail.com]

Hello Go community!

I am glad to announce the release of re2c-2.0, a lexer generator tool that now supports Go.

It is an old project: the first release was in 1993. It has been used in the C world for many years, but the Go backend has been added only recently. The tool is a preprocessor for Go programs (to be used with `go generate`) that compiles declarative regular expression specifications to a deterministic finite automaton. It is well suited for all kinds of lexical analyzers starting from small string-processing routines and up to full-sized tokenizers for programming languages, etc.

The key features of re2c are:

• generating fast lexers that match or exceed the speed of hand-written code
• flexible user interface that allows to use it in different environments and with different input models
• fast submatch extraction based on the lookahead-TDFA algorithm
  

Resources:

• official website: https://re2c.org
• Go user manual: https://re2c.org/manual/manual_go.html
• source code on Github: https://github.com/skvadrik/re2c
• build instructions: https://re2c.org/install/install.html
  

Feedback from the Go community is welcome!

Ulya Trofimovich