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It will indeed be interesting to see.

It will indeed be interesting to see. :) You're right that the work needed to connect (say) a compiler or static analyzer to (say) an editor is usually substantial. Right now, projects typically duplicate this work over and over again, for each combination of language and editor. We've found that for a lot of common cases you can re-use the work you did to instrument a given compiler and/or editor for others to mix and match, if they can agree on a format for the data. Obviously this doesn't work for every such problem, but in our experience it's surprisingly effective for most of the day-to-day tasks engineers need to solve, such as figuring out what will break if I commit this change to the repo.

Posted by creachadair on Jan 27, 2015, 6:29 PM

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It will indeed be interesting to see.

creachadairJan 27, 2015, 6:29 PM

It will indeed be interesting to see. :) You're right that the work needed to connect (say) a compiler or static analyzer to (say) an editor is usually substantial. Right now, projects typically duplicate this work over and over again, for each combination of language and editor. We've found that for a lot of common cases you can re-use the work you did to instrument a given compiler and/or editor for others to mix and match, if they can agree on a format for the data. Obviously this doesn't work for every such problem, but in our experience it's surprisingly effective for most of the day-to-day tasks engineers need to solve, such as figuring out what will break if I commit this change to the repo.

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