On 2012-04-09 15:44, Kapps wrote:
That was Descent, a plugin for Eclipse. They did it by porting DMD, with changes, to Java. A horribly painful task I'd imagine. I wonder if it'd be easier by just creating bindings for DMD for the language of choice.
That would be horribly painful as well. Since DMD is not made to be used as a library. It really does not fit.
That being said, if MonoDevelop's parser gets to the point where it can evaluate this stuff well, I think that'd work just as nicely. You won't quite be able to see the actual compiler's representation of it, but you'd be able to expand mixins and such.
The MonoDevelop parser will have the same problem as the one for Descent. Either it's a port of DMD and needs to play catch up all the time. Or it's a completely new parser that will, most likely, not have the same behavior as the compiler. A new parser would also need to play catch up with DMD.
See my other reply: http://forum.dlang.org/thread/[email protected]#post-jlutfe:24jal:241:40digitalmars.com -- /Jacob Carlborg
