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I thought the same when i did compiler course, but 8 years after that course i wrote tooling to mass refactor a java codebase by creating AST manipulate AST and
by dragonelite 3y ago
I thought the same when i did compiler course, but 8 years after that course i wrote tooling to mass refactor a java codebase by creating AST manipulate AST and convert the AST to code again.
- stevage 3y agoOh, yeah, true. I have done a couple of pretty complex things that involved parsing code or manipulating ASTs and it was probably useful for that. I attempted to write a parser for Wikitext once in ANTLR which was an interesting nightmare.