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Isn't Julia's parser still in Scheme?
by kkylin 3y ago
Isn't Julia's parser still in Scheme?
- cbkeller 3y agoFemptolisp, a "Scheme dialect"
- sundarurfriend 3y agoFor now, yes. The upcoming 1.10 release (which is now in beta) will switch to a pure Julia parser as the default (with the old Scheme parser available as an option). Not because of any fault with Scheme per se (afaik), just that contributors to Julia are more likely to know Julia than Scheme, so it makes sense from a maintanence point of view.
- adgjlsfhk1 3y agonote that in 1.10 scheme is still used for lowering (simplifying AST to IR which is a lot of code for julia)