standardese/cppast

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

cppast is a C++ library providing a high-level interface to the C++ abstract syntax tree, built on top of libclang with workarounds for its limitations. It supports parsing source files, synthesizing AST entities, reading documentation comments, and generating code.

Use cases

• parse C++ source files to inspect the AST
• build a C++ documentation generator
• extract documentation comments from C++ headers
• generate C++ code from parsed entities
• build a reflection tool for C++
• write a static analysis tool for C++ codebases

When to choose

• you need a standalone C++ AST tool and libclang's raw API is too limited
• you want to build a documentation generator or reflection library for C++
• you need to synthesize AST entities or generate code, not just parse
• you want a parser backend decoupled from the AST representation

When to avoid

• you need to parse function bodies or full expression/statement information
• you need to modify parsed entities (they are immutable)
• you are working in a language other than C++
• you need guaranteed support for rare edge cases in the C++ grammar

Facets

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parser compiler documentation developer-tools parsers developer-tools documentation programming-languages cpp cross-platform cli cpp-ast libclang code-generation documentation-comments reflection

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