# @Chronos [She/Her] figured I could ping+paste, since you mentioned you were
# doing some experimenting with the compiler:
import "$nim"/compiler/[ ast, parser, options, msgs, idents, pathutils, syntaxes
]
proc readAST (file :string) :ast.PNode=
  var conf    = options.newConfigRef()
  let fileIdx = msgs.fileInfoIdx(conf, pathutils.AbsoluteFile file)
  var pars :parser.Parser
  if syntaxes.setupParser(pars, fileIdx, idents.newIdentCache(), conf):
    result = parser.parseAll(pars)
    parser.closeParser(pars)
# This is all it takes to read a file and return an AST in the exact shape that
# the compiler has internally# Instead of building the entire compiler+vm+etc, it takes about 2s to compile
# these imports
# Thought you might find it useful for your experiments too✍️