D Language Foundation August 2023 Monthly Meeting Summary

[FeepingCreature]

On Saturday, 2 September 2023 at 20:27:04 UTC, Bonarc wrote:
> On Wednesday, 30 August 2023 at 14:19:03 UTC, FeepingCreature 
> wrote:
>> When you want to react to ~every keypress in a language server 
>> impl with updated coloring, it starts to be problematic. Think 
>> in terms of "UI feedback" rather than "project compilation".
>
> You only need an AST for this though right? Not a full 
> compilation?

Depends if you want language server info, ie. types, docs, etc. 
You can do very clever things here like caching symbols between 
runs, but the *naive* way is to run the frontend at least all the 
way through to sema2.