Roadmap

Roadmap

0.11.0

Goal: Improve the documentation, modernize code & infrastructure.

• Modernize code

  • Drop IE8 support and update code accordingly (#441)
  • Drop Node.js 0.10.x & 0.12.x support and update code accordingly (#442)
  • Update code style (#443)
  • Use ESLint to enforce code style (#407)

• Modernize infrastructure

  • Switch from Make to Gulp (#444)
  • Switch from Jasmine to Mocha/Chai (#409)
  • Rewrite bin/pegjs (#429)

• Cleanup

  • Improve tests (#447)
  • Use a better abstraction for code generation (#448)
  • Use a better abstraction for bytecode generation (#449)
  • Don’t generate code in bytecode generator (#450)
  • Improve AST visitor definitions (#451)

• Enhancements

  • Optional Infinite Loop Detection (#!topic/pegjs/2AwciOPgneA)
  • Multi grammar support + multiple parser generation (Stage 1 of #523)

• Improve documentation

  • Enhance documentation (#42)
  • Other minor improvements (#438, #368)

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1.0.0

Goal: Improve PEG.js parser performance significantly, create new website, release the first officially stable version of PEG.js.

• Improve AST (#374)
• Clean-up terminology (#375)
• Rewrite bin/pegjs using a command-line option parsing library (#429)
• Replace or split the benchmarking framework (#446)
• Document best practices for writing PEG.js grammars #248

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Post-1.0.0

Goal: A rewrite of PEG.js, not only the library but also the development toolchain.

• Change this repository project into a monorepo using Lerna

  • @pegjs/util common code shared across the PEG.js packages
  • @pegjs/language ast classes, opcodes, basic code writer and error classes
  • @pegjs/parser
  • @pegjs/linter basic linter based on ESLint and report passes
  • @pegjs/javascript a ES5/ES2015 code generator for the PEG.js compiler
  • @pegjs/compiler
  • @pegjs/core the main api library
  • @pegjs/cli https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command-line_interface
  • @pegjs/repl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read–eval–print_loop
  • @pegjs/test-* a set of packages to simplify testing PEG.js and similar tools

• Rewrite the plugin system