Future of Descent and D Eclipse IDE

[Bruno Medeiros]

On 14/07/2010 11:46, Bruno Medeiros wrote:
> On 12/07/2010 21:31, Ellery Newcomer wrote:
>> On 07/12/2010 02:45 PM, Bruno Medeiros wrote:
>>> So, yeah, as things are, I'm maintaining my approach with Mmrnmrhm:
>>> writing and improving the (very basic) semantic engine from scratch, and
>>> using DLTK.
>>> As for the parser, it will continue to use Descent's parser, although
>>> the parser is already a bit outdated for D2. :/ It would be great if
>>> someone were to volunteer to update it... *wink* *wink* :p
>>
>> sigh, point me at the source
>>
>
> Great, but are you aware what this task entails? In other words, are you
> familiar with descent.compiler? Because this is a Java port of the DMD
> frontend, and I'm not sure how easy it is for someone else other than
> Ary to learn how to do this, there might be quite a bit of private
> knowledge. (we can ask him about this, of course)
>
>>> But better yet would be to start coding our own custom parser (using a
>>> parser generator like ANTLR for example), that could really be tailored
>>> for IDE needs. In the medium/long term, that's probably what needs to be
>>> done.
>>>

Ah, forgot to say, source is:
http://www.dsource.org/projects/descent/browser/trunk/descent.compiler


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Bruno Medeiros - Software Engineer