Migrating the ecosystem

[phpnode]

When v1 is safely out of the door and we're happy with it we should start reaching out to the broader ecosystem to encourage people to switch over. There's a bunch of pegjs plugins, prettier plugins and syntax highlighting rules that are in active use and it'd be great if we could support them.

At some point we will also need to introduce our own file extension, but .pegjs should continue to work for the foreseeable future.

We should also write an announcement that explains the reasons for the fork (in a tactful way), and write some simple instructions to make switching over easier. It may be possible to get npm to deprecate the pegjs package if David can talk to them, but I don't know whether that's desirable or whether he'd be comfortable doing so - it would help with adoption though.

It would also be great if we can get some of the more prolific / well known users of PEG.js to support this effort. I know @mikeal uses it on some of his projects, there are likely many more.

We should also look at the dependency graph on npm and github and reach out to the bigger projects that consume it encouraging them also to make the switch.

[hildjj]

See pegjs/pegjs#667

[hildjj]

https://twitter.com/hildjj/status/1383169196981317635

[hildjj]

See SrTobi/code-pegjs-language#5

[hildjj]

According to the above conversation, I just published a repack of @SrTobi 's code at https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=PeggyJS.peggy-language

I'd love it if someone would try it out and see if it works for them.

[SrTobi]

@hildjj I tried it and it's pretty cool! The new features are also pretty great! I found a little bug and made two pull requests. Great work!

[pjmolina]

Hi. I just migrated the plugin ts-pegjs to use peggy.
https://github.com/metadevpro/ts-pegjs

Regards,

[hildjj]

Make sure you're tracking #117 for the 1.2 release, please.

There is a new opcode PUSH_EMPTY_STRING, and we need your input on whether MATCH_CHAR_CLASS and MATCH_REGEXP should be the same opcode, or whether MATCH_CHAR_CLASS should get a new number.

We'll make sure to keep you in the loop for anything that might affect your code.

[hildjj]

Thanks for switching!

[pjmolina]

Thanks @hildjj for keeping the fire alive.
I will take a look to #117 and will come back with my feedback.

[SrTobi]

Hi guys, great work with Peggy. I added a message (with dramatic caption 😄) to the readme of my PEG.js extension and suggest to switch to the peggy extension.

[MarcelBolten]

Hi,
I started to migrate the "old" plugin phpegjs because I want to use it with Peggy.
Please have a look at PHPeggy. So far it is only compatible with [email protected].
Cheers

[hildjj]

See #193