Prep

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Transpile source code into other source code.

Transpile source code into other source code.

Prep works on blocks of text bracketed by REGEXPs, using PEG to transpile the blocks.

Prep is like sed but uses grammars instead of REGEX and uses glue instead of REGEX rewriting syntax.

https://github.com/guitarvydas/prep

See the doc/ and presentation/ subdirectories. Most of the documentation has been done in markdown using Obsidian.

I think that all you need is to have prep (a JS shebang script) on your path.

You need to npm install Ohm-JS, atob, pako, yargs. [I’ve probably missed some items - let me know].

I believe in “showing my intermediate work”. This is WIP¹, but, AFAICT², it works and is usable.

I will gladly impart these ideas to anyone with an open mind - experience not necessary.

The following interests me, but, I haven’t checked it out…