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I’ve started two new tasks. (1) I’m adding a Rust parser to AntlrVSIX. The grammar I’m using is an old grammar from Jason Orendorff. Unfortunately, it hasn’t been updated for several years. Also, it looks like it isn’t correct because there are cases where tokens are not correctly defined, e.g., ‘>’ ‘=’ instead of ‘>=’. …
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As I pointed out before, it now seems possible to write a VS extension that supports any programming language. I’ve been updating AntlrVSIX to input a description of the syntax of a programming language and tag a file of that language in the editor. I have this now working for Antlr and Java, and plan …
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Now that I have my AntlrVSIX extension working for Visual Studio IDE, I have now set my sights on a “meta-language” editor. This picks up the idea of an add-in that supports Antlr, and brings it forward to an add-in that supports any language. For this to work, the grammar for the language would be …