Edge Cases

Indexing with Clang

Andrew Pontious describes to Wolf Rentzsch his efforts to use libclang to index his Xcode projects, using his new (and barely functional) Chime framework.

Links:

• My Lists from 2010 « The Powers of Observation
• The Case Against Xcode Plugins « Edge Cases
• Friday Q&A 2014-01-24: Introduction to libclang « mikeash.com
• libclang: C Interface to Clang « clang
• macmade/ClangKit « GitHub
• Projects – ClangKit – Documentation « XS-Labs
• apontious/Chime « GitHub
• Translation unit (programming) « Wikipedia
• The Plumber’s Guide to Blocks « Edge Cases
• Name mangling « Wikipedia

Rejected Episode Titles:

• I Had Not Broken Free of the Chain
• Clang’s a Big Topic
• You Could Route Around Apple
• “Provides a Public Inferface”
• CFRelease All Over Again
• In Edge Cases and Perhaps Wolf Fashion
• It Appears to Do Nothing
• Objective-C: It’s Not Magical
• Slow Enumeration
• Enumerate, Blobbity Blobbity Blah
• Kinda Streamy
• There’s a Whole Bunch of Different Buckets
• I Have Nothing Concrete to Tell You
• It Can’t Be All That Fuzzy
• Xcode Doesn’t Just Fall Over
• It’s an Extremely Difficult Problem
• Science Also Has This Issue
• You Really Like Hearing from Losers
• A Horrible Engineering Challenge
• Very Excited About Your Little Chime Project