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salsa
A generic framework for on-demand, incrementalized computation. Inspired by adapton, glimmer, and rustc's query system.
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rust-prolog
Rust implementation of prolog based on miniprolog: http://andrej.com/plzoo/html/miniprolog.html
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merlin discussion
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-07.
- Merlin: Context sensitive completion for OCaml in Vim and Emacs
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Hacker News top posts: May 7, 2022
Merlin: Context sensitive completion for OCaml in Vim and Emacs\ (0 comments)
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Hoogle for Rust?
Instead of searching functions based on their type structure (like Hoogle), you could search for functions that "consume"/"produce" values of given types (like OCaml's Merlin). I think Rust already computes variance of type constructors, so such a tool just would have to obtain this information.
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Dot completion
However, after posting this question I stumbled upon this Github issue where they say it isn't supposed to work out of the box and you're supposed to bind a key to it by editing your .emacs file. Turns out the default .emacs file binds auto-complete to "backtab" which means Shift+Tab but that didn't work. I did eventually discover that I can get some kind of completion by binding backtab to completion-at-point like this:
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Advice/best practice/arhitecture pattern for building language with LSP in mind?
Self-advertising: I partcipated to the writing of Merlin: A Language Server for OCaml (Experience Report), which explains the overall design of Merlin, a language server for OCaml. A key idea of Merlin are that classic lexing-parsing-typing pipelines can easily be adapted to be incremental for a Language Server, especially when they are using immutable data structures.
- merlin: Context sensitive completion for OCaml in Vim and Emacs
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ocaml/merlin is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of merlin is OCaml.
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