We've just added a new feature to JavaCC21 (soon to be renamed CongoCC) – the ability to access child nodes of an AST node by name. In this post, we'll discuss why that's useful and how to use the feature.
Since being released in late 2021, the game Wordle seems to have taken the Internet by storm, spawning a host of similar games such as Dordle, Quordle, Octordle and Sedecordle, each of which presents a number of Wordle-like instances to be solved together.
In this post, we'll look at Untangle, a tool which helps in solving these puzzles.
There's a useful list of Python parsing tools maintained by Michael Bernstein. However, it doesn't contain a close equivalent of the tool we've used in the past when developing lexers and parsers in Java: JavaCC. In this post, we'll look at what's nice about JavaCC, and how recent developments in it make it feasible to create parsers with it in Python, with no external dependencies!