Re:Ask HN: Static Code Analysis Tools
by austincheney on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @12:57PM
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I created a parsing scheme to address a variety of static analysis concern. https://sparser.io/
You don't have to use the parser libraries I provide. The important thing about a tool like that is the data structure is provides.
Here are some key benefits:
1. The output is table that can be used as a tree. Each parsed token knows what its parent is and where the containing parent ends which allows for walking the tree in an algorithmic fashion.
2. Since the output is a table of arrays it is the fastest non-bytecode parsing scheme to access.
3. The output structure is language agnostic, so provided a proper parser it can represent any language, any combination of languages, and any combination of languages in a nested fashion.
You don't have to use the parser libraries I provide. The important thing about a tool like that is the data structure is provides.
Here are some key benefits:
1. The output is table that can be used as a tree. Each parsed token knows what its parent is and where the containing parent ends which allows for walking the tree in an algorithmic fashion.
2. Since the output is a table of arrays it is the fastest non-bytecode parsing scheme to access.
3. The output structure is language agnostic, so provided a proper parser it can represent any language, any combination of languages, and any combination of languages in a nested fashion.