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Except there are no free lunches, literally.
Parents still have to pay for part of the lunch.
Title gore: if we find a way, then what?
That was fast.
The company didn’t abandon, Microsoft bought them out indirectly and killed the competition. Nothing to see here.
ANTLR is for writing parsers. You don’t need a new custom parser, just use an existing XML parser.
There are IDE extensions that show the diff of the entire PR locally without having to squash anything. So yes, it’s weird to reinvent a square wheel.
I am currently writing a C compiler, with my own backend (and hopefully, frontend) in OCaml.
But why write your own C frontend? It’s much more of a pain than people imagine. I maintain a C frontend implemented in OCaml (the project itself goes back 25 years) and it’s still not on par with GCC or Clang.
For any other language, sure, but C has so many “wonderful” features, starting with the lexer hack. Your grammar conveniently overlooks this issue but it’s something you’ll have to deal with to actually implement it. So it simply won’t be as nice as theory suggests.
