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by marginalia_nu 5 days ago
I was thinking of JEP 484, which I guess technically isn't a compiler API as much as it is a class file API, but that's kind of a big deal for this type of work as probably the primary work the parts of the classpath you currently aren't editing, moreso than parsing a single .java-file, and the kludges we had before this API (e.g. ASM) were incredibly fragile.