On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 6:22 PM, Florian Goujeon <florian.goujeon@42ndart.org> wrote:
All competition is stimulating. It's beneficial for everyone. All competitors are different from each other and aim to bring a surplus value. As I said, Scalpel brings high homogeneity with Boost. It has its own unique design and I also plan to endow it with round-trip engineering capabilities.
One area that scalpel could conceivably find a niche, depending on how you do it, would be in analyzing source code without seeing the full translation unit (as you might for syntax-coloring purposes). Since CLANG is really built to be a compiler, I don't think it can do that. Of course I realize you can't always get a correct analysis if you don't see the whole TU, but especially if you're willing to do nondeterministic parsing/backtracking, you could very easily do a really good job. -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com