On Thursday, 5 July 2012 at 12:11:33 UTC, Denis Shelomovskij
wrote:
There are more and more projects requiring parsing D code (IDE
plugins, DCT and dfmt now).
We definitely need a _standard_ fast D parser (suitable as
tokenizer). We already have a good one at least in Visual D.
Maybe dmd's parser is faster. If so, it can be (easily?)
rewritten in D. We also already have some other parsers (in C#
from Mono-D etc.).
What about to get one and call it standard?
Visual-D is not Boost-licensed (I think this would be possible to
change)
Mono-D is written in C#, as you mentioned
Pegged may eventually become standard, if it will be performance
optimized and a bit more customizable
Dscanner(https://github.com/Hackerpilot/Dscanner) from Brian
Schott is pretty good, too.
SDC is another nice option
DIL (http://code.google.com/p/dil/) is very nice but GPL
I plan to try using Pegged inside my DCT project. Probably that
will require huge modifications though...
Some more links from Pegged readme:
Hisayuki Mima's CTPG(https://github.com/youkei/ctpg), very
similar, also done in D. Have a look!
Nick Sabalausky's Goldie
(http://www.dsource.org/projects/goldie).
Benjamin Shropshire's dparser
(http://dsource.org/projects/scrapple/browser/trunk/dparser).
Martin Nowak put these gists on the D newsgroup:
https://gist.github.com/1255439 - lexer generator
https://gist.github.com/1262321 - complete and fast D lexer
