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It's a parsable format. Not some arbitrary stream of text, like what UNIX streams deal with...
"arbitrary streams of text" are also parsed. Line breaks matter, whitespace matters as well, and in some cases tabs and spacea matter.
I'm glad to see that Apple is putting work into making their tooling better and easier to work with, but I'm still not clear on the benefits of this change. Would someone care to enlighten me? Currently, the benefits of libclang that I see are that I can easily drop it into a project without requiring a lot of dependencies, and I don't need to figure out how to get permission to run different processes and manage int…
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It proves nothing, it's just about my original comment about Microsoft: > bringing the idea of language servers to the programming mainstream Lucid failed to do this, Microsoft succeeded.
The simplicity of you statement ignores what it meant to get a computer running Energize C++ properly in 1993 and an Electron (VSCode) app in 2017. Specially the money part.