Introduction As a newcomer to gRPC (in Go) there are many resources setting out what gRPC is, where it originated from and how to create a basic service and client.
This article is about using lexmachine to tokenize strings (split up into component parts) in the Go (golang) programming language. If you find yourself processing a complex file format or network protocol this article will walk you through how to use lexmachine to process both accurately and quickly.
Go is widely used to implement microservices and APIs. And for those wishing to set up a dynamic website without resorting to, say, Ruby or PHP, Go offers a lot of tools out of the box.
What is ANTLR? ANTLR (ANother Tool for Language Recognition), is an ALL(*) parser generator. In layman’s terms, Antlr, creates parsers in a number of languages (Go, Java, C, C#, Javascript), that can process text or binary input.
Useful Programs I’ll start this post with a bold but fairly uncontroversial statement: Programs that do not interact with the outside world are useless - they do nothing except consume cycles.
