New lexer / parser / code generator about clio HOT 7 CLOSED

I made a new branch and pushed the new parser, it's not complete yet, working on it. Hope it makes it easier to develop Clio.

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chevrotain plan didn't really work well, instead I wrote my own parsing engine. The new parser engine has a very small core (~20 lines) and it's easy to understand. The error reporting is improved, and it has a lot of advantages over chevrotain.

I also changed the AST format and how we generate JS code. Soon this will be in core.

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Where did you read about parsers and compilers? Clio is a nice language, congrats

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Thank you @raphaelkieling , I'm interested in programming languages and text mining / natural language processing, I made a lot of toy languages and experimented with nlp a lot, I don't remember any specific articles / papers about parsers and compilers. Anyways, here's the link to our new parser engine:

https://github.com/pouya-eghbali/bean

This is going to replace a huge part of Clio, I'm not really satisfied with the current parser, I just wanted to make the language quickly and did a lot of dirty hacks with the current parser, I'm replacing it with a proper one.

Sadly I work 100% and I cannot spend a lot of time on this, but I'm doing my best, we're looking to hire some developers [in Iran, for various reasons] to help me with some Clio stuff.

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wow, perfect! I will go study your bean parser engine. but not give up clio, it's a good ideia, if need i will go help u

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@raphaelkieling also feel free to join our telegram group! :) Link is in the readme

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Closing this for #24

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