DMD as a library - recap, next steps

[Jacob Carlborg]

On Tuesday, 16 June 2020 at 09:00:55 UTC, Petar Kirov 
[ZombineDev] wrote:

> Also perhaps one of the goal is to completely replace the 
> parser with something more fault-tolerant. For example see:
>
> https://unallocated.com/blog/incremental-packrat-parsing-the-secret-to-fast-language-servers/
>
> https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter
> https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/blob/master/docs/index.md
>
> ^^^
> I suggest you watch the talks linked from the last page.

I agree. The Eclipse Java compiler has quite a few "modes" in 
which you can run it. Only run the parser or run various levels 
of semantic analysis. It allows you to compile and run code that 
does not compile. For example, the signature of a functions 
compiles but not the body. The compiler can just replace the body 
with throwing an exception. If that functions is not called at 
runtime, it's perfectly fine.

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/Jacob Carlborg