So... let's document dmd

[Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d]

On 2016-04-05 23:40, Walter Bright wrote:

> Haha, MicroEmacs is written in D, so just use D code :-)
>
> I don't really understand why IDE makers don't use an actual programming
> language for plugins - I'd use javascript as there's a D implementation
> of a javascript engine you can use. (Using D as a plugin language would
> require making DLLs which is a pain or making a D interpreter, which
> would be a major project (CTFE in theory should work for that, but it
> consumes too much memory).)

TextMate, Sublime and Atom all use the same syntax to describe the 
grammar for a language. All of them supports plugins (to various 
degrees), but none of them uses plugins to syntax highlight code, as far 
as I know.

I guess it's easier for most of us, I know you write a lexer in two days 
:), to use the custom syntax to describe the grammar than to create a 
proper lexer and parser. Note that a lexer is not enough, these grammars 
can describe how a function (and other constructs) look like.

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/Jacob Carlborg