Last week another update of the ANTLR4 Visual Studio Code extension went out and now you can debug your grammars with it.
After a few month since the last updates there are now new releases of the Node.js module and the vscode extension with some cool new features. antlr4-graps now can generated sentences from your grammar, that is, random input that always parses and shows the language your grammar supports. This can be used for demonstration purposes, checks against other parser implementations or just to see if your grammar does the right thing. Another new feature is the grammar formatter, which supports a large number of options and comes with a powerful alignment implementation. The antlr4-vscode extension makes all that available in Visual Studio code (see also the vscode market place).
In addition to the antlr4-graps NodeJS module release there is also a new one of antlr4-vscode, the Visual Studio Code extension (see also the vscode market place). New in this version is the visual ATN graph:
A new release of the ANTLR4 grammar parsing service (antlr4-graps) NodeJS module has been published. Besides some bug fixing a big new feature was added: ATN graphs. This is something especially useful for core ANTLR4 developers (target writers or those working directly on ANTLR4) as it generates data about the internal ATN that can be visualized for a better understanding about it's structure (see also the ANTLR4 grammar support extension in vscode for such a visualization).
A few days ago I published a new release of the ANTLR4 extension for Visual Studio Code, which contains a number of fixes and new features. The light color theme is now complete as well and you get railroad diagrams for your grammar rules and even entire files. These can be saved to disk (as HTML with embedded svg), so that you can use them in other documents. Code lens support was added as well, which allows to (optionally) show rule reference counts. Hope you enjoy the new release.
