Re: are contributions on other programming languages than C and Emacs lisp bad idea?

[Jorge Javier Araya Navarro]

El sábado 21 de septiembre del 2019 a las 0346 horas, Stephen Leake escribió:

> There is an example currently in ELPA; the wisi package provides a
> parser generator written in Ada, and an elisp interface that runs the
> generated executable in an external process. The ada-mode and
> wisitoken-grammar-mode packages use wisi.
>
> This requires an Ada compiler to fully install the packages.
>
> So far, this is all focussed on ada-mode; users of that mode are very
> likely to have a native Ada compiler installed, so there's no extra
> burden. But if other modes are implemented using wisi, it could become
> one. On the other hand, gcc provides an Ada compiler, so it's not a
> big burden.

I'm actually looking to do something like this but for JavaScript, there are 
several packages in
Rust that can help parsing JavaScript code and I thought this could become 
handy and replace the
existing parsing written in Emacs Lisp.

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