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Exactly what I came into this thread expecting. Was curious why when it looks like there's already great IDE support for Rust with existing tools.
by reificator 9y ago
Exactly what I came into this thread expecting. Was curious why when it looks like there's already great IDE support for Rust with existing tools.
- dikaiosune 9y agoThere's actually a parser for rust called syn, and it's very useful for procedural macros, as the current API exposes a stream of tokens, not a full AST.
- steveklabnik 9y agoTo elaborate a bit on that, exposing an AST directly means that you're tied to that version of the AST; this was considered really hard for compatibility over versions. Token streams are much easier to define an interface for, and more flexible: you're not just stuck with whatever AST representation we'd have given you. For example: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/first-edition/procedural-macros.html https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/first-edition/procedural-macr...