DMD front-end can be used as a library with Dub

[Basile B. via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 29 August 2016 at 10:42:23 UTC, Alexander Breckel 
wrote:
> I just tried to use the DMD frontend as a Dub package in my own 
> project to parse and analyze D files and it ... just worked. 
> The dub.json for dmd is fairly small and doesn't require any 
> changes to the code. This might be common knowledge, but I was 
> completely unprepared for this :)
>
> Please note: This is "only" the dmd frontend (lexer, parser, 
> semantic passes, CTFE). Code generation will be more 
> complicated.

Thx, that's interesting from an IDE developer perspective.

However since DMD is a "single shot" program, using it as library 
could introduce memory problems. Also string handling is C style, 
unlike libdparse, which is truly written in D. However libdparse 
does nothing more than producing the AST, which becomes 
problematic with "static if" expressions, mixins, etc.