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By Sarah Gooding - Aug 22, 2025
ast
{AST} is a library for manipulating abstract syntax trees.
It embraces immutability; each AST node is inherently frozen at creation, and updating a child node requires recreating that node and its every parent, recursively.
This is a design choice. It does create some pressure on garbage collector, but completely eliminates all concurrency and aliasing problems.
See also {AST::Node}, {AST::Processor::Mixin} and {AST::Sexp} for additional recommendations and design patterns.
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We found that ast demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
Package last updated on 19 Mar 2025
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