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Show HN: Yantra – an LALR(1) parser generator for C++

✇Hacker News
By: renjipanicker
1 October 2026 at 02:30

Yantra is a C++ parser generator: lexer, parser, and AST walker all generated from one tool. It builds the whole AST first, then walks it.

Most LALR parser generators (Yacc, Bison, Lemon) run your semantic actions during parsing, as each rule reduces, bottom-up.

That means at the time a rule's action runs, you don't yet know what its parent looks like. This pushes a lot of grammars toward hand-built AST classes and a separate walking pass whenever you need to look ahead into siblings or defer a decision until more context is available.

On the other hand, Yantra always builds the whole AST first, then walks it top-down in a separate pass, calling your semantic actions as it goes. A parent rule's action can run before its children are visited.

A single grammar can define more than one walker. For example, one that emits C++, another that emits Java, from the same parse. The AST and the walker classes are both generated for you.

A small example (full version, with compile commands, in the README):

  start := expr;

  expr := expr(a) PLUS expr(b)
  %{
      std::cout << "Adding" << std::endl;
  %}

  expr := NUMBER(N)
  %{
      std::cout << "Number: " << N.text << std::endl;
  %}

  NUMBER := "\d+";
  PLUS := "\+";
  WS := "\s+"!;
Running this on "1 + 2 + 3" prints:

  Adding
  Number: 1
  Adding
  Number: 2
  Number: 3
The outer "Adding", the root of the tree, prints first, before either of its children. That's only possible because the whole tree exists before any action runs.

Some other things about it: integrated lexer with mode support (for things like nested comments), an optional amalgamated single-file output mode with a generated main(), C++23, MIT licensed.

It's young (0.5.1, pre-1.0) and single-maintainer, so treat it as early. I'd rather know what breaks than have it look more finished than it is.

Known gaps are listed at https://github.com/TantrixAuto/yantra/blob/main/docs/known_l...

Repo: https://github.com/TantrixAuto/yantra

Feedback and questions are all welcome. I'll be around.

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Vivo’s X Fold 6 accidentally feels like a throwback

✇The Verge
By: Dominic Preston
1 October 2026 at 02:00
The X Fold 6 looks like foldables did three months ago.

It's a quirk of the release calendar that when Vivo's X Fold 6 launched in China this June, it was just another foldable. Now that it's ready for its global release, the size and aspect ratio feel oddly old-fashioned.

The X Fold 6 is much the same size as Vivo's previous foldables, and most other foldables that launched before both Apple and Samsung pivoted to a shorter, wider form factor with the Z Fold 8 and iPhone Duo. The 6.51-inch cover display is in the standard smartphone 20:9 aspect ratio, opening to an almost square 8.02-inch panel. The crease is a little behind rivals, since it's quite visible, and the IP59 rating is good but not …

Read the full story at The Verge.

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