Clang-based service architecture

[Roman D. Boiko]

On Tuesday, 19 June 2012 at 06:34:00 UTC, Guillaume Chatelet 
wrote:
> Google by the voice of Chandler Carruth made this proposal a 
> few days ago
>
> https://plus.google.com/u/0/108216155797501293389/posts/WDheftEoxMT
>
> It aims at building a clang daemon to parse, compile, and 
> generate
> informations about source code. Basically
> + multithreaded, distributed compilation
> + coherent support of the language (C/C++/ObjC) throughout IDEs 
> or text
> editors ( formatting, syntax highlight, realtime report of 
> compilation
> errors/warning, maybe static analysis )
>
> The D community already is moving toward this direction as I 
> can see (
> Roman D. Boiko's proposal or Robert Schadek "Distributed 
> Multithreaded
> Caching D Compiler" ) and that's awesome news !
>
> Also the idea of getting compiler error/warning, formatting, 
> syntax
> highlight as a service looks very sweet to me. A wonderful way 
> to unite
> and keep everything in sync from text editor to more powerful 
> IDEs.

See also Roslyn from Microsoft. DCT project will have a similar 
architecture.