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You can (sort of) do all of that with the Eclipse Modeling Framework[0].

Your AST is what EMF calls a "model". By default the "backend" and ecosystem surrounding EMF is skewed towards Java for historical reasons, but there have been some prototypes with other languages as well. You can serialize your AST in any way you like, although by default it relies on XMI files. You can implement your own textual concrete syntax, or rely on a database. The EMF ecosystem has tools for implementing textual or "graphical" concrete syntaxes. You can combine them (e.g. usually a specific subset of your AST gets edited in a certain way that's best for your targetted end users). The ecosystem also has tools for performing comparisons and plugging them into your editing means.

Of course all of this tooling requires a lot more work than an LSP server.

[0]: https://eclipse.dev/modeling/emf/

parent eiffel31 2 years ago

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