Yet another static site generator, but for language designers
You are a language designer, you are working on your own programming language, maybe because you had an innovative idea, or maybe you want to create a monstrosity (hello INTERCAL).
Either way, you want to show it to the world, so you start making a website. If you are like me, you’ll go for a static website generator, and there are a ton of them…
For Letlang, I chose Hugo.
It’s nice, I can write the content using Markdown, design a nice HTML template, host it on Netlify for free, really great.
“Do It Yourself” creeps in…
I have one issue with Hugo though. Its syntax highlighting engine, Chroma, does not support my language. Why would it?
To extend it, I would need to create a Pygments lexer, recompile Chroma, and build Hugo with my modified Chroma.
I already have made 3 grammars for my language:
- using rust-peg in my compiler
- using BNF in the documentation (I…
