There were a couple of threads talking about a gen...
# thinking-togetherm
Mariano Guerra
02/08/2019, 9:26 AM
There were a couple of threads talking about a general purpose AST, here's a short paper on that: https://cs.wellesley.edu//~blocksplus/2018/pdfs/blocksplus18-paper21.pdf "Building an Accessible Block Environment Multi-Language, Fully-Accessible AST-based Editing in the Browser" (maybe I got the paper from here, not sure, I found the tab open 😄)
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Scott Anderson
02/08/2019, 11:32 PMThe UncleGoose toolkit sounds cool but I can't find any reference to it outside of that paper
Scott Anderson
02/08/2019, 11:33 PMThey named it directly after popular wooden blocks with symbols which is clever, but also unfortunate for search
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Brian Hempel
02/11/2019, 11:42 PM@jkoppel had a paper at SPLASH on an approach to writing multi-language analyses and transforms. Not quite the same deal as structured editing, but presents a nifty approach for dealing with scenarios where a particular language doesn’t match the universal AST. Might be able to adapt some ideas for a structured editor scenario. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1707.04600.pdf
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jkoppel
02/12/2019, 1:12 AMThanks Brian!
jkoppel
02/12/2019, 1:13 AMUniversal ASTs are my favorite idea to hate. They sound great, but they’re actually a terrible idea for most PL tasks
jkoppel
02/12/2019, 1:14 AM(Structured editing may be an exception; you can basically treat every node identically)
jkoppel
02/12/2019, 1:14 AMA long time ago I wrote half a blog post on why. It actually has a fair bit of my argument written down