Re: Language infrastructure (reloaded)

geertjan wielenga <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.netbeans.modules.openide.devel
Organization Oracle Corporation
Message-ID <[email protected]>
History of language infrastructure: 
https://blogs.oracle.com/geertjan/entry/lexer

Gj

On 7-11-2016 13:43, geertjan wielenga wrote:
>
> Lots of people are interested in this. :-) Just a question of time etc.
>
> Gj
>
> On 7-11-2016 13:40, Jean-Marc Borer wrote:
>> Ok, so no one seems interested in this topic then...
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 1:55 PM, Jean-Marc Borer <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hello members,
>>
>>     I know, it was already partly discussed in the thread
>>     http://forums.netbeans.org/viewtopic.php?t=65697&highlight=language+infrastructure
>>     <http://forums.netbeans.org/viewtopic.php?t=65697&highlight=language+infrastructure>
>>
>>     I wanted to start porting my simple language stucture based on
>>     the book "Rich Client Programming: Plugging into the NetBeans
>>     Platform
>>     <http://www.amazon.com/Rich-Client-Programming-Plugging-NetBeans/dp/0132354802>"
>>     to a modern approach and try to document it as a or several
>>     tutorials.
>>
>>     Reading through the thread again to refresh my memory, I will
>>     probably base my work on Quorum language (Thank yous Stefik) as
>>     well as what I can find at
>>     https://github.com/GeertjanWielenga/Python4NetBeans
>>     <https://github.com/GeertjanWielenga/Python4NetBeans>.
>>
>>     I hope those projects use the "most" state of the
>>     art implementation for a new language support. @Stefik and
>>     Geertjan, do you agree with this statement?
>>
>>     Now there are still some questions that I would like to be
>>     answered to be able to write a "clean" tutorial. Googling around
>>     and using information stored in my spongy memory ;), there
>>     is/were different language APIs in NB history.
>>
>>     First there is the old "roots" way described in Rich Client
>>     Programming book that I used in the first place. Then there was
>>     Schliemann which seems to be discontinued. Then came GSF which is
>>     partly documented/used in the NB tutorials. But now it seems it
>>     is also becoming deprecated. Now there is CSL.
>>
>>     Is CSL the new language infrastructure? It seems to have GSF
>>     parts in it, since the csl.api readme.txt fle still makes
>>     references to GSF.
>>
>>     Now I am lost. Can someone here out explain me:
>>     1) the history of the language infrastructures?
>>     2) tell me what is infrastructure to use now (state of the art)
>>     and its name (I have a hint but would prefer that someone
>>     confirms my idea)?
>>
>>     Help would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>>     Cheers,
>>
>>     Jean-Marc
>>
>>
>
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