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.
