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GSoC 2019 Ideas
Aggregating feedback from a mailing list, Slack and initial discussing in #229.
Implement a driver for one of the languages that are not yet supported (not in the beta state) e.g for TypeScript.
An implementation might be either a native driver that generates an AST (LUA, Rust, Closure), the annotation code for an existing native driver (TypeScript) or a combination on both.
As of now, Babelfish only supports parsing files (code-to-AST), but it does not support "rendering" the native AST back to source code. Although this problem of converting a Universal AST to source code is hard in general, the conversion of a native AST to the source code for individual drivers is not.
Right now the main process of parsing server runs under root user on Linux.
This is mostly due to the fact that bblfshd is always using a https://github.com/opencontainers/runc underneath.
There are 2 principle ways around it: either find a way of launching containers though runc without root (may require upstream changes) or add an option to bblfshd to support running directly on Docker (more realistic).