Re:Scripted: A JavaScript editor from VMware
by erichocean on Friday October 12, 2012 @12:33PM
(#4645749)
bonus points for using Esprima to parse
Absolutely. Esprima is one of the better things to happen to the JavaScript world.
The lack of a good, fast, reusable JavaScript parser has been an annoying deficit that is finally being adequately addressed.
There's been a bunch of JS parsers over the years (many PEG-based), but my project (at least) has brought all of them to their knees. Very, very frustrating to get OOM errors trying to parse large JavaScript frameworks and perform code transformations.
Absolutely. Esprima is one of the better things to happen to the JavaScript world.
The lack of a good, fast, reusable JavaScript parser has been an annoying deficit that is finally being adequately addressed.
There's been a bunch of JS parsers over the years (many PEG-based), but my project (at least) has brought all of them to their knees. Very, very frustrating to get OOM errors trying to parse large JavaScript frameworks and perform code transformations.