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I don’t think you understand what the project is. It’s not an independent library. The plan is for it to take over parsing throughout the compiler. Numerous

• refulgentis 5y ago
  You can repeatedly condescend to everyone in this thread, yet, we all continue to grok that having a plan of goals for improvements that would impact both tooling and compiler, when the plan it has to take over parsing throughout the compiler succeeds, is not the same as focusing on compiler performance. I hope this is a silver bullet that somehow address all of this and succeeds, but 7 years of Swift in, I've seen plenty of plans of goals that could do things if other ambitious plans succeed.
  • zepto 5y ago
    > by claiming an independent parsing library improves compiler performance. The library is not independent, and one of the goals is to improve compiler performance. You wrote a criticism of me of me based on your own misunderstanding of the project, in response to a comment that wasn’t addressed to you. Leaving aside that the personal attack was pointless in the first place, it’s not obvious what value there is in trying to defend it.