Autocomplete as an Interface (2015)

Re:Autocomplete as an Interface (2015) by thedirt0115 on Thursday January 16, 2020 @12:15PM (#22066559)

Ok, I'm curious! What might such a tool look like or do? Did you have something specific in mind?

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Re:Autocomplete as an Interface (2015) by cdo256 on Friday January 17, 2020 @08:55AM (#22074603)

I could imagine two tools: 1. A tool that parses the text and draws red underlines on all the errors, this exists but (at least for C++ in VS 2017) it is quite slow. 2. A tool that automatically populates and updates types of variables and functions.

Both of these could be achieved by somehow decoupling the front-end (as in before semantic analysis) of compilers and making them output the AST in some standardized tree-structured format like XML.

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Re:Autocomplete as an Interface (2015) by dr_baba on Saturday January 18, 2020 @06:48AM (#22083893)

Doesn’t the Language Server Protocol already do this, just via JSON instead of XML? I believe at least some LSP backends (e.g. clangd) just reuse a compiler AST and feed the data to your editor?

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