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agos on Feb 26, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: GitHub's new text editor leaked on Twitter

so the grammars are still a bunch of regexes? that'd be kind of a letdown

BruceM on Feb 26, 2014 [–]

IntelliJ is pretty nice on this point. You write a PEG-style parser and get a full AST. It is a lot of work, but the payoff is pretty nice and they have a lot of solid tooling to help you out.

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