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Which lexer/parser generator is the best (easiest to use, fastest) for C or C++? I’m using flex and bison right now, but bison only handles LALR(1) grammars. The language I’m parsing doesn’t really need unlimited lookahead, but unlimited lookahead would make parsing a lot easier. Should I try Antlr? Coco/R? Elkhound? Something else?
Updated 2015-01-05:
My original answer pointing to a now deleted question:
So I’ve taken the list of items from the deleted answer on archive.org with at least 1 vote here:
I’ve done several flex/bison systems myself but now I’d replace both with Lemon from sqlite since it’s one tool, re-entrant and thread safe as well as having a streaming/pull-based model.