Version 7.0.0-preview.1

[teo-tsirpanis]

• Farkle was rewritten in C#, and features performance improvements across the board, as well as an improved and extensible architecture.
  • There are several breaking changes; please consult the migration guide for more details.
  • The precompiler is not yet supported; it will be ported in a subsequent preview version.
• The parser became faster and allocation-free (allocations happen only in semantic analysis, fka post-processing), and supports parsing text from ReadOnlySpan<char>, as well as parsing streaming input asynchronously.
• The grammar format was redesigned to be extensible and have a significantly reduced reading overhead. Building grammars is also significantly faster as well. Take a look at the benchmarks for more information.
  • Reading GOLD Parser grammars is still supported, and works by converting them to the new format.
  • Also added support for reading CGT grammars, used in early GOLD Parser versions.
• Terminals can now be defined as hidden, which means that they will not appear in the expected symbol list of syntax error messages.
• Terminals can now be defined as noisy, which means that they will be ignored if they appear in an unexpected position.

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This discussion was created from the release Version 7.0.0-preview.1.