I was looking recently at both Emacs and vim recent updates, and noted
that both those tools now provide interfaces to tree-sitter (https://tree-sitter.github.io/tree-sitter/) which is a parser
generator and incremental parsing library. It doesn't have an Ada
parser yet, though :-(
It might be nice, as a community, to work on such a parser though. I
did not look into what that implies yet, maybe someone else has
already started work on that.
The advantage might be that the Emacs ada-mode can use that instead of
its home-brewed parser (which although I am sure it was fun to develop
still likely requires some maintenance by Stephen, and definitely
requires manually compiling some Ada code before we can use the
ada-mode).
We could also use it to improve the current vim ada-mode, which hasn't
been updated in years and could do with various improvements.
Finally, maybe we could talk with the GNAT Studio team. I don't think
they have looked into tree-sitter yet, but it might be useful.
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