[SAOC 2023] dfmt rewrite - Weekly update #6

[Imperatorn]

On Friday, 27 October 2023 at 17:43:32 UTC, Prajwal S N wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Good news - the problem with using `appender!string` with the 
> `extern (C++)` formatter class is no longer there. I've 
> refactored the driver code to use a locking writer for both 
> files and stdout. On a tangent, we've now found out that we 
> cannot use `ASTBase` to build the AST - it does not store 
> enough information, and also is missing some essential methods 
> like `toChars()` that will inevitably be needed for the 
> formatter to work. I've been working on using `ASTCodegen` 
> instead, which comes with its own challenges of compiling 
> imports. I hope to get it working and proceed with implementing 
> a full traversal of the AST nodes soon.

Are there any plans on extending ASTBase?