orangeduck/mpc

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

mpc is a lightweight parser combinator library for C, shipped as a single ANSI C source file. It supports type-generic parsers, predictive recursive descent parsing, automatic error message generation, and regex/grammar parser generators.

Use cases

• build a new programming language in C
• parse an existing programming language
• define and parse a custom data format
• embed a domain-specific language in a C application
• generate parsers from regular expressions or grammar definitions

When to choose

• you need a small, dependency-free parser library in plain C
• you want quick parser construction with combinators instead of writing a lexer/parser by hand
• you want automatic error message generation for your grammar

When to avoid

• you need high-performance or highly optimized parsing for large inputs
• you prefer parser generator tools like yacc, bison, or ANTLR
• you are working outside C

Facets

library · maturity stable

parser parsers programming-languages developer-tools cross-platform c parser-combinators dsl grammar recursive-descent ansi-c single-file

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