Do everything in Java…

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 12/17/2014 12:03 PM, ketmar via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> yes. but with good design the mmaped binary file can be used as data
> structure. and we can avoid lookaheads that current textual parser do,
> as we already got AST built for us. just drop the idea that binary file
> must be small (in a sense of "squeezing bytes by clever integer
> encoding" and such) and portable, and think about "how can we use this
> mmaped?" with very good design we can also generate readers and writers
> almost automatically from AST definitions.

As I replied to Ola, I've been there and done that. I know the ground. It isn't 
worth it.