Sourcetools

Sourcetools is an open-source software library designed to assist developers in working with source code across programming languages. It provides a collection of reusable components for lexical analysis, parsing, abstract syntax tree (AST) manipulation, and code generation, enabling tooling developers to build readers, analyzers, transformers, and formatters more efficiently.

Core features include tokenizers and parsers for multiple languages, utilities to navigate and transform ASTs, and helpers to serialize code back to text. The toolkit emphasizes modularity, offering language-specific adapters while maintaining language-agnostic interfaces for common tasks. It also includes utilities for static analysis, refactoring workflows, syntax highlighting, and code instrumentation.

Sourcetools is designed to support a range of use cases, including integrated development environments, linters, automated refactoring tools, educational resources, and research projects that require code transformation or analysis. The project favors a composable architecture, allowing developers to plug in their own language front-ends or to integrate existing parsers and printers.

As an open-source project, Sourcetools relies on community contributions and documentation to evolve. It typically offers documentation, tutorials, and example projects to help users adopt and extend the toolkit. By providing common interfaces and reusable building blocks, Sourcetools aims to standardize aspects of source-code tooling and reduce duplication across language-specific implementations.