Jalal Joseph Possik

16 papers C 5Journal 6Unranked 5
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
Comput. Hum. Behav.
Benjamin De Witte, Vincent Reynaert, Danny Kieken, Joseph Jabbour, Catherine Demarey, Anne Dumoulin, Jalal Joseph Possik
2025 conf
IPTA
Rita Younes, Roy Abi Zeid Daou, Grace El Khoury, Petra Bilane, Jalal Joseph Possik, Charles Yaacoub
2025 conf
ICAART (3)
Najat Nehme, Danielle Azar, Diana Kutsalo, Jalal Joseph Possik
2024 conf
EUSPN/ICTH
Esperance Ngo Mbedeg Le-Nye, Charles Yaacoub, Jalal Joseph Possik
2024 J jnl
Comput. Educ. X Real.
Benjamin De Witte, Vincent Reynaert, Jérôme Hutain, Danny Kieken, Joseph Jabbour, Jalal Joseph Possik
2023 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Engineering Management
Jalal Joseph Possik, Ali Asgary, Adriano O. Solis, Gregory Zacharewicz, Mohammad Ali Shafiee, Mahdi M. Najafabadi, Nazanin Nadri, Abel Guimaraes, Hossein Iranfar, Philip Ma, Christie M. Lee, Mohammadali Tofighi, Mehdi Aarabi, Simon Gorecki, Jianhong Wu
2023 J jnl
Simul.
Jalal Joseph Possik, Gregory Zacharewicz, Anne Zouggar, Bruno Vallespir
2022 C conf
DS-RT
Manuella Germanos, Danielle Azar, Abir-Beatrice Karami, Jalal Joseph Possik
2022 C conf
DS-RT
Jalal Joseph Possik, Danielle Azar, Adriano O. Solis, Ali Asgary, Gregory Zacharewicz, Abir Karami, Mohammadali Tofighi, Mahdi M. Najafabadi, Mohammad Ali Shafiee, Asad A. Merchant, Mehdi Aarabi, Jianhong Wu
2022 J jnl
Int. J. Comput. Integr. Manuf.
Jalal Joseph Possik, Anne Zouggar Amrani, Bruno Vallespir, Gregory Zacharewicz
2022 C conf
DS-RT
Ahmad Almaksour, Hadi Gerges, Simon Gorecki, Gregory Zacharewicz, Jalal Joseph Possik
2021 C conf
DS-RT
Jalal Joseph Possik, Simon Gorecki, Ali Asgary, Adriano O. Solis, Gregory Zacharewicz, Mohammadali Tofighi, Mohammad Ali Shafiee, Asad A. Merchant, Mehdi Aarabi, Abel Guimaraes, Nazanin Nadri
2021 conf
ANNSIM
Jalal Joseph Possik, Charles Yaacoub, Simon Gorecki, Gregory Zacharewicz, Andrea D'Ambrogio
2021 J jnl
Inf.
Simon Gorecki, Jalal Joseph Possik, Gregory Zacharewicz, Yves Ducq, Nicolas Perry
2019 C conf
WETICE
Jalal Joseph Possik, Andrea D'Ambrogio, Gregory Zacharewicz, Aicha Anne Amrani, Bruno Vallespir
2018 conf
SummerSim
Jalal Joseph Possik, Aicha Anne Amrani, Gregory Zacharewicz
src/highlight.rs
← Index src/highlight.rs rust
use once_cell::sync::Lazy;
use regex::Regex;
use std::collections::HashMap;

/// Highlighting rules for a "family" of languages.
struct LangRule {
    line_comments: &'static [&'static str],
    block_comments: &'static [(&'static str, &'static str)],
    /// If true, enables strings delimited by " and '
    strings: bool,
    /// If true, also enables triple-quoted strings (Python)
    triple_quote: bool,
    /// If true, also enables backtick template strings (JS/TS)
    backtick: bool,
    /// If true, keywords are matched case-insensitively (e.g. SQL)
    case_insensitive_keywords: bool,
    keywords: &'static [&'static str],
}

const EMPTY_KW: &[&str] = &[];

fn rule_for(lang: &str) -> LangRule {
    match lang {
        "rust" => LangRule {
            line_comments: &["//"],
            block_comments: &[("/*", "*/")],
            strings: true,
            triple_quote: false,
            backtick: false,
            case_insensitive_keywords: false,
            keywords: &[
                "as", "break", "const", "continue", "crate", "dyn", "else", "enum", "extern",
                "false", "fn", "for", "if", "impl", "in", "let", "loop", "match", "mod", "move",
                "mut", "pub", "ref", "return", "self", "Self", "static", "struct", "super",
                "trait", "true", "type", "unsafe", "use", "where", "while", "async", "await",
                "union",
            ],
        },
        "python" => LangRule {
            line_comments: &["#"],
            block_comments: &[],
            strings: true,
            triple_quote: true,
            backtick: false,
            case_insensitive_keywords: false,
            keywords: &[
                "False", "None", "True", "and", "as", "assert", "async", "await", "break",
                "class", "continue", "def", "del", "elif", "else", "except", "finally", "for",
                "from", "global", "if", "import", "in", "is", "lambda", "nonlocal", "not", "or",
                "pass", "raise", "return", "try", "while", "with", "yield", "self",
            ],
        },
        "javascript" | "typescript" => LangRule {
            line_comments: &["//"],
            block_comments: &[("/*", "*/")],
            strings: true,
            triple_quote: false,
            backtick: true,
            case_insensitive_keywords: false,
            keywords: &[
                "break", "case", "catch", "class", "const", "continue", "debugger", "default",
                "delete", "do", "else", "export", "extends", "finally", "for", "function", "if",
                "import", "in", "instanceof", "new", "return", "super", "switch", "this", "throw",
                "try", "typeof", "var", "void", "while", "with", "yield", "let", "static",
                "async", "await", "of", "null", "true", "false", "undefined", "interface",
                "type", "enum", "implements", "namespace", "readonly", "public", "private",
                "protected", "abstract", "as", "declare", "from", "get", "set",
            ],
        },
        "java" => LangRule {
            line_comments: &["//"],
            block_comments: &[("/*", "*/")],
            strings: true,
            triple_quote: false,
            backtick: false,
            case_insensitive_keywords: false,
            keywords: &[
                "abstract", "assert", "boolean", "break", "byte", "case", "catch", "char",
                "class", "const", "continue", "default", "do", "double", "else", "enum",
                "extends", "final", "finally", "float", "for", "goto", "if", "implements",
                "import", "instanceof", "int", "interface", "long", "native", "new", "package",
                "private", "protected", "public", "return", "short", "static", "strictfp",
                "super", "switch", "synchronized", "this", "throw", "throws", "transient", "try",
                "void", "volatile", "while", "true", "false", "null", "var", "record", "yield",
                "sealed", "permits",
            ],
        },
        "c" => LangRule {
            line_comments: &["//"],
            block_comments: &[("/*", "*/")],
            strings: true,
            triple_quote: false,
            backtick: false,
            case_insensitive_keywords: false,
            keywords: &[
                "auto", "break", "case", "char", "const", "continue", "default", "do", "double",
                "else", "enum", "extern", "float", "for", "goto", "if", "inline", "int", "long",
                "register", "restrict", "return", "short", "signed", "sizeof", "static",
                "struct", "switch", "typedef", "union", "unsigned", "void", "volatile", "while",
            ],
        },
        "cpp" => LangRule {
            line_comments: &["//"],
            block_comments: &[("/*", "*/")],
            strings: true,
            triple_quote: false,
            backtick: false,
            case_insensitive_keywords: false,
            keywords: &[
                "auto", "break", "case", "char", "const", "continue", "default", "do", "double",
                "else", "enum", "extern", "float", "for", "goto", "if", "inline", "int", "long",
                "register", "return", "short", "signed", "sizeof", "static", "struct", "switch",
                "typedef", "union", "unsigned", "void", "volatile", "while", "class",
                "namespace", "template", "typename", "public", "private", "protected", "virtual",
                "friend", "this", "new", "delete", "try", "catch", "throw", "using", "operator",
                "explicit", "mutable", "bool", "true", "false", "nullptr", "constexpr",
                "decltype", "noexcept", "override", "final",
            ],
        },
        "csharp" => LangRule {
            line_comments: &["//"],
            block_comments: &[("/*", "*/")],
            strings: true,
            triple_quote: false,
            backtick: false,
            case_insensitive_keywords: false,
            keywords: &[
                "abstract", "as", "base", "bool", "break", "byte", "case", "catch", "char",
                "checked", "class", "const", "continue", "decimal", "default", "delegate", "do",
                "double", "else", "enum", "event", "explicit", "extern", "false", "finally",
                "fixed", "float", "for", "foreach", "goto", "if", "implicit", "in", "int",
                "interface", "internal", "is", "lock", "long", "namespace", "new", "null",
                "object", "operator", "out", "override", "params", "private", "protected",
                "public", "readonly", "ref", "return", "sbyte", "sealed", "short", "sizeof",
                "stackalloc", "static", "string", "struct", "switch", "this", "throw", "true",
                "try", "typeof", "uint", "ulong", "unchecked", "unsafe", "ushort", "using",
                "virtual", "void", "volatile", "while", "var", "async", "await", "yield",
                "nameof",
            ],
        },
        "go" => LangRule {
            line_comments: &["//"],
            block_comments: &[("/*", "*/")],
            strings: true,
            triple_quote: false,
            backtick: true,
            case_insensitive_keywords: false,
            keywords: &[
                "break", "case", "chan", "const", "continue", "default", "defer", "else",
                "fallthrough", "for", "func", "go", "goto", "if", "import", "interface", "map",
                "package", "range", "return", "select", "struct", "switch", "type", "var",
                "true", "false", "nil", "iota",
            ],
        },
        "ruby" => LangRule {
            line_comments: &["#"],
            block_comments: &[],
            strings: true,
            triple_quote: false,
            backtick: false,
            case_insensitive_keywords: false,
            keywords: &[
                "def", "end", "if", "elsif", "else", "unless", "while", "until", "for", "in",
                "do", "begin", "rescue", "ensure", "raise", "class", "module", "self", "nil",
                "true", "false", "and", "or", "not", "then", "yield", "return", "break", "next",
                "redo", "retry", "super", "require", "require_relative", "attr_accessor",
                "attr_reader", "attr_writer", "private", "public", "protected",
            ],
        },
        "php" => LangRule {
            line_comments: &["//", "#"],
            block_comments: &[("/*", "*/")],
            strings: true,
            triple_quote: false,
            backtick: false,
            case_insensitive_keywords: false,
            keywords: &[
                "abstract", "and", "array", "as", "break", "callable", "case", "catch", "class",
                "clone", "const", "continue", "declare", "default", "do", "echo", "else",
                "elseif", "empty", "extends", "final", "finally", "fn", "for", "foreach",
                "function", "global", "goto", "if", "implements", "include", "include_once",
                "instanceof", "interface", "isset", "list", "match", "namespace", "new", "or",
                "print", "private", "protected", "public", "require", "require_once", "return",
                "static", "switch", "throw", "trait", "try", "unset", "use", "var", "while",
                "xor", "yield", "true", "false", "null", "self", "parent",
            ],
        },
        "bash" => LangRule {
            line_comments: &["#"],
            block_comments: &[],
            strings: true,
            triple_quote: false,
            backtick: false,
            case_insensitive_keywords: false,
            keywords: &[
                "if", "then", "else", "elif", "fi", "for", "while", "until", "do", "done",
                "case", "esac", "function", "in", "return", "break", "continue", "local",
                "export", "readonly", "shift", "exit", "echo", "source",
            ],
        },
        "sql" => LangRule {
            line_comments: &["--"],
            block_comments: &[("/*", "*/")],
            strings: true,
            triple_quote: false,
            backtick: false,
            case_insensitive_keywords: true,
            keywords: &[
                "select", "from", "where", "insert", "into", "values", "update", "set",
                "delete", "create", "table", "alter", "drop", "join", "inner", "left", "right",
                "outer", "on", "group", "by", "order", "having", "as", "and", "or", "not",
                "null", "is", "in", "like", "limit", "offset", "distinct", "union", "all",
                "exists", "between", "case", "when", "then", "end", "primary", "key", "foreign",
                "references", "default", "index", "view", "trigger", "procedure", "function",
                "begin", "commit", "rollback",
            ],
        },
        "lua" => LangRule {
            line_comments: &["--"],
            block_comments: &[("--[[", "]]")],
            strings: true,
            triple_quote: false,
            backtick: false,
            case_insensitive_keywords: false,
            keywords: &[
                "and", "break", "do", "else", "elseif", "end", "false", "for", "function", "if",
                "in", "local", "nil", "not", "or", "repeat", "return", "then", "true", "until",
                "while",
            ],
        },
        "kotlin" => LangRule {
            line_comments: &["//"],
            block_comments: &[("/*", "*/")],
            strings: true,
            triple_quote: false,
            backtick: false,
            case_insensitive_keywords: false,
            keywords: &[
                "as", "break", "class", "continue", "do", "else", "false", "for", "fun", "if",
                "in", "interface", "is", "null", "object", "package", "return", "super", "this",
                "throw", "true", "try", "typealias", "val", "var", "when", "while", "by",
                "companion", "constructor", "data", "enum", "import", "init", "override",
                "private", "protected", "public", "sealed", "suspend",
            ],
        },
        "swift" => LangRule {
            line_comments: &["//"],
            block_comments: &[("/*", "*/")],
            strings: true,
            triple_quote: false,
            backtick: false,
            case_insensitive_keywords: false,
            keywords: &[
                "class", "deinit", "enum", "extension", "func", "import", "init", "internal",
                "let", "operator", "private", "protocol", "public", "static", "struct",
                "subscript", "typealias", "var", "break", "case", "continue", "default", "do",
                "else", "fallthrough", "if", "in", "for", "return", "switch", "where", "while",
                "as", "false", "true", "guard", "nil", "self", "super", "throw", "try", "async",
                "await",
            ],
        },
        "css" | "scss" | "less" => LangRule {
            line_comments: &[],
            block_comments: &[("/*", "*/")],
            strings: true,
            triple_quote: false,
            backtick: false,
            case_insensitive_keywords: false,
            keywords: EMPTY_KW,
        },
        "xml" => LangRule {
            line_comments: &[],
            block_comments: &[("<!--", "-->")],
            strings: true,
            triple_quote: false,
            backtick: false,
            case_insensitive_keywords: false,
            keywords: EMPTY_KW,
        },
        "json" => LangRule {
            line_comments: &[],
            block_comments: &[],
            strings: true,
            triple_quote: false,
            backtick: false,
            case_insensitive_keywords: false,
            keywords: &["true", "false", "null"],
        },
        "yaml" => LangRule {
            line_comments: &["#"],
            block_comments: &[],
            strings: true,
            triple_quote: false,
            backtick: false,
            case_insensitive_keywords: false,
            keywords: &["true", "false", "null", "yes", "no"],
        },
        "ini" => LangRule {
            line_comments: &["#", ";"],
            block_comments: &[],
            strings: true,
            triple_quote: false,
            backtick: false,
            case_insensitive_keywords: false,
            keywords: EMPTY_KW,
        },
        "dockerfile" => LangRule {
            line_comments: &["#"],
            block_comments: &[],
            strings: true,
            triple_quote: false,
            backtick: false,
            case_insensitive_keywords: true,
            keywords: &[
                "from", "run", "cmd", "label", "expose", "env", "add", "copy", "entrypoint",
                "volume", "user", "workdir", "arg", "onbuild", "stopsignal", "healthcheck",
                "shell",
            ],
        },
        "makefile" => LangRule {
            line_comments: &["#"],
            block_comments: &[],
            strings: true,
            triple_quote: false,
            backtick: false,
            case_insensitive_keywords: false,
            keywords: EMPTY_KW,
        },
        "graphql" => LangRule {
            line_comments: &["#"],
            block_comments: &[],
            strings: true,
            triple_quote: false,
            backtick: false,
            case_insensitive_keywords: false,
            keywords: &["query", "mutation", "subscription", "type", "input", "enum", "interface", "fragment", "on"],
        },
        // Language families without detailed specific rules: still
        // highlight comments/strings/numbers generically.
        "perl" => LangRule {
            line_comments: &["#"],
            block_comments: &[],
            strings: true,
            triple_quote: false,
            backtick: false,
            case_insensitive_keywords: false,
            keywords: &["my", "our", "sub", "if", "elsif", "else", "unless", "while", "for", "foreach", "return", "use", "package"],
        },
        "groovy" => LangRule {
            line_comments: &["//"],
            block_comments: &[("/*", "*/")],
            strings: true,
            triple_quote: false,
            backtick: false,
            case_insensitive_keywords: false,
            keywords: EMPTY_KW,
        },
        "r" => LangRule {
            line_comments: &["#"],
            block_comments: &[],
            strings: true,
            triple_quote: false,
            backtick: false,
            case_insensitive_keywords: false,
            keywords: &["function", "if", "else", "for", "while", "repeat", "break", "next", "return", "TRUE", "FALSE", "NULL", "NA"],
        },
        "diff" => LangRule {
            line_comments: &[],
            block_comments: &[],
            strings: false,
            triple_quote: false,
            backtick: false,
            case_insensitive_keywords: false,
            keywords: EMPTY_KW,
        },
        // markdown, plaintext, cmake, vbnet, dos, powershell, etc:
        // no specific highlighting, plain but formatted text.
        _ => LangRule {
            line_comments: &[],
            block_comments: &[],
            strings: false,
            triple_quote: false,
            backtick: false,
            case_insensitive_keywords: false,
            keywords: EMPTY_KW,
        },
    }
}

/// Cache of compiled regexes (one per language actually encountered).
static REGEX_CACHE: Lazy<std::sync::Mutex<HashMap<String, Option<Regex>>>> =
    Lazy::new(|| std::sync::Mutex::new(HashMap::new()));

fn build_regex(rule: &LangRule) -> Option<Regex> {
    let mut comment_alts: Vec<String> = Vec::new();
    for (start, end) in rule.block_comments {
        comment_alts.push(format!(
            "(?s:{}.*?{})",
            regex::escape(start),
            regex::escape(end)
        ));
    }
    for prefix in rule.line_comments {
        comment_alts.push(format!("{}[^\n]*", regex::escape(prefix)));
    }

    let mut string_alts: Vec<String> = Vec::new();
    if rule.triple_quote {
        string_alts.push(r#"(?s:"""(?:[^"\\]|\\.)*?""")"#.to_string());
        string_alts.push(r#"(?s:'''(?:[^'\\]|\\.)*?''')"#.to_string());
    }
    if rule.strings {
        string_alts.push(r#""(?:[^"\\\n]|\\.)*""#.to_string());
        string_alts.push(r#"'(?:[^'\\\n]|\\.)*'"#.to_string());
    }
    if rule.backtick {
        string_alts.push(r"(?s:`(?:[^`\\]|\\.)*`)".to_string());
    }

    let number_pat = r"\b0[xX][0-9a-fA-F]+\b|\b\d+\.\d+(?:[eE][+-]?\d+)?\b|\b\d+\b".to_string();

    let mut keyword_alt = String::new();
    if !rule.keywords.is_empty() {
        let escaped: Vec<String> = rule.keywords.iter().map(|k| regex::escape(k)).collect();
        let joined = escaped.join("|");
        keyword_alt = if rule.case_insensitive_keywords {
            format!("(?i:\\b(?:{})\\b)", joined)
        } else {
            format!("\\b(?:{})\\b", joined)
        };
    }

    let mut parts: Vec<String> = Vec::new();
    if !comment_alts.is_empty() {
        parts.push(format!("(?P<comment>{})", comment_alts.join("|")));
    }
    if !string_alts.is_empty() {
        parts.push(format!("(?P<string>{})", string_alts.join("|")));
    }
    parts.push(format!("(?P<number>{})", number_pat));
    if !keyword_alt.is_empty() {
        parts.push(format!("(?P<keyword>{})", keyword_alt));
    }

    if parts.is_empty() {
        return None;
    }

    Regex::new(&parts.join("|")).ok()
}

fn escape_html(s: &str) -> String {
    let mut out = String::with_capacity(s.len());
    for c in s.chars() {
        match c {
            '&' => out.push_str("&amp;"),
            '<' => out.push_str("&lt;"),
            '>' => out.push_str("&gt;"),
            '"' => out.push_str("&quot;"),
            '\'' => out.push_str("&#39;"),
            _ => out.push(c),
        }
    }
    out
}

/// Highlights the source code and returns HTML that's already escaped
/// and ready to insert inside a `<pre><code>...</code></pre>`.
/// No JavaScript involved: all the work happens here, in Rust,
/// at file-generation time.
pub fn highlight_code(content: &str, lang: &str) -> String {
    let rule = rule_for(lang);

    let regex_opt = {
        let mut cache = REGEX_CACHE.lock().unwrap();
        cache
            .entry(lang.to_string())
            .or_insert_with(|| build_regex(&rule))
            .clone()
    };

    let Some(re) = regex_opt else {
        return escape_html(content);
    };

    let mut out = String::with_capacity(content.len() + content.len() / 4);
    let mut last = 0;

    for caps in re.captures_iter(content) {
        let m = caps.get(0).unwrap();
        out.push_str(&escape_html(&content[last..m.start()]));

        let class = if caps.name("comment").is_some() {
            "c"
        } else if caps.name("string").is_some() {
            "s"
        } else if caps.name("number").is_some() {
            "n"
        } else if caps.name("keyword").is_some() {
            "k"
        } else {
            ""
        };

        let escaped_match = escape_html(m.as_str());
        if class.is_empty() {
            out.push_str(&escaped_match);
        } else {
            out.push_str(&format!("<span class=\"{}\">{}</span>", class, escaped_match));
        }
        last = m.end();
    }
    out.push_str(&escape_html(&content[last..]));
    out
}