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Re:Emacs maintainer steps down by chetanahuja on Wednesday October 14, 2015 @01:38AM (#10385214)
Holy shit. This is incredible. I love Emacs but it's so sad that the stewardship of this amazing piece of software is in the hands of someone who would rather keep the feature-set substandard because of vague fears that someone might steal the AST's from his precious GCC.

I wonder what would be the problem with someone using libclang to generate the same AST information in a much more convenient fashion. Will it break the GPL in some way?

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Re:Emacs maintainer steps down by nanny on Wednesday October 14, 2015 @08:54AM (#10386300)
People can and do use libclang for AST info in the same manner that you're talking about: https://github.com/Sarcasm/irony-mode
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Re:Emacs maintainer steps down by chetanahuja on Wednesday October 14, 2015 @11:23AM (#10387116)
Almost didn't click on that link because it looked like a joke link (Sarcasm and irony!!). Glad I did and found something new :-)
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