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How is CppSharp compared to ClangSharp? #1779

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Let me start by saying that I haven't used ClangSharp, but I can speak a bit to some of the differences.

Parsing / AST

ClangSharp provides bindings to libclang, which is a C interface to Clang. We actually started binding to libclang in CppSharp but quickly found limitations when it came to more advanced C++ constructs like templates, and had to switch to the Clang C++ API, which is not stable, and at a higher maintenance burden, but provides anything you might need. We have even needed to sometimes go into private APIs to get some information like vtable layouts. Now, this was almost a decade ago, so maybe libclang already provides some of this information, I am not sure.

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