'(blog:HappyPeng)

The recent work on midtalk's compiler, which handles IDL parsing and C++ generation, has became quite successful.

midtalk is now able to handle "real-life" IDL files, such as this one, which is describing DynamicModule, the basis for an implementation of dynamically loadable components, and to generate the corresponding C++ header.

midtalk offers a real (object-oriented, in C++) Abstract Syntax Tree API which will allow other programs to easily parse IDL files for various usage (from documentation generation to different langugage targets).

The parser has been completely rewritten by hand (instead of using bison++), thus making its code well integrated with midtalk's base objects, more clear, less bug- and memory leak-prone than before.

Learn more about midtalk here.