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shuringai on April 22, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Semgrep: Semantic grep for code

question, you mention "no more AST parsing" as a selling line for semgrep. Isn't this actually a bad thing for a staric analyzer, as ASTs are actually... abstract, and closer to the real logic of what the code does? I know analyzing text is faster but is it worth?

iddan on April 23, 2021 [–]

The tool abstracts away the AST with a more intuitive, human friendly interface. Similarly to how Regular Expressions do for strings matching logic

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