inventory VS logos

Yesss! This release finally lets David Tolnay's inventory crate live again as v0.3! 🙌🏻

Regarding static init: https://crates.io/crates/inventory (https://github.com/dtolnay/inventory)

@dtolnay I noticed you just archived the repos for inventory, linkme, gflags, and typetag, which I assume implies a deprecation.

Plugin systems. At first I wanted each component to be a separate .so file and let the engine loads them dynamically. However this turns out to be extreamly hard, especially since I want asynchronous. Now I have switched to compile-time components selection. It still has one problem: the repetition of the componenet list. I have to list all components in the toml file, as well as in my main.rs. So far I only found https://github.com/dtolnay/inventory, but it looks "hacky" for me. I have also considered build scripts, but it pretty much destroyed the IDE experience.

I like dtolnay's inventory or linkme crates to register items in a central list, just using decentralized annotations.

This is mighty impressive! I've been trying to get some motivation for the mythical rewrite of the proc macro in Logos, and this might just do it for me :D. I'll have a proper look later today and see if any of your findings have something that can be generalized. Also really surprised to see aarch64 doing better than x86_64 since the latter is what I've been optimizing for!

Rust is a very nice langage for implementing compilers, and has a nice ecosystem for it (logos, rust-peg, lalrpop, astmaker -- this one is mine --, etc...).

rust-langdev has a lot of libraries for building compilers in Rust. Perhaps you could use these to make your implementation easier, and revisit it later if you want to build things from scratch. I'd suggest logos for lexing, LALRPOP / chumsky for parsing, and rust-gc for garbage collection.

Thanks! For compile times you might find the CLI version that Andrew Hickman contributed useful, it's undocumented still mostly I fear but shouldn't be hard to use, see original PR: https://github.com/maciejhirsz/logos/pull/248

For my lexer generation purposes, I tend to use https://github.com/maciejhirsz/logos, as it not only generates an easy to use lazy lexer, but the result is also exceptionally fast!

Hi, I'm using rowan to create a parser and want to print more useful error messages with position in the text/file. I'm using logos (https://crates.io/crates/logos) to generate the lexer. Is there a way to get the starting and ending positions of a SyntaxToken? If not I thought of adding my own wrapper struct around the SyntaxTokens.

Is there a way for a lexer created with the logos crate (https://crates.io/crates/logos) to get the starting and ending positions for the tokens?

I wouldn't recommend Logos at this point. This recent bug is quite nasty and seems easy to hit, and the maintainer is unresponsive. Last commit was half a year ago. At this point I consider Logos abandonware, though it would be great if its development continued, or if it were forked.

logos uses "ridiculously fast".