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Subject: Re: ANTLR grammar for Ada available
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On Monday, December 31, 2018 at 9:22:35 PM UTC+11, Paul Rubin wrote:
> alby.gamper@gmail.com writes:
> > Thanks for the feedback!, Let me wait for some further feedback from
> > the Ada community, so I can ascertain the extent of the interest in
> > this piece of work.
> 
> No problem.
> 
> > Note that I don't believe this as a competing library to the great work that
> > AdaCore have done with "libadalang",
> 
> Libadalang also looks interesting!  I didn't know about it before.
> 
> > But an alternative to those use cases where the client application
> > CANNOT easily be written in Ada (such as an Microsoft Visual Studio
> > Plugin/Extension)
> 
> You can also use libadalang from C or Python, apparently.  I don't know
> if that helps with Visual Studio.

Hi Paul

Yes "libadalang" can of course be used from C/C++ but this requires a small
C++/CLI wrapper library WHEN used from a Visual Studio plugin/extension.

I am in the process of testing/setting this up as we speak, and hope to be
able to confirm that this all works as the MS documentation says id should :-)

Alex