introduce Zig Object Notation and use it for the build manifest file (build.zig.zon)

CMakeLists.txt

@@ -513,7 +513,7 @@ set(ZIG_STAGE2_SOURCES
     "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/lib/std/zig/Ast.zig"
     "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/lib/std/zig/CrossTarget.zig"
     "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/lib/std/zig/c_builtins.zig"
-    "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/lib/std/zig/parse.zig"
+    "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/lib/std/zig/Parse.zig"
     "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/lib/std/zig/render.zig"
     "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/lib/std/zig/string_literal.zig"
     "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/lib/std/zig/system.zig"

lib/std/Build.zig

@@ -1496,8 +1496,8 @@ pub fn dependency(b: *Build, name: []const u8, args: anytype) *Dependency {
         }
     }
 
-    const full_path = b.pathFromRoot("build.zig.ini");
-    std.debug.print("no dependency named '{s}' in '{s}'\n", .{ name, full_path });
+    const full_path = b.pathFromRoot("build.zig.zon");
+    std.debug.print("no dependency named '{s}' in '{s}'. All packages used in build.zig must be declared in this file.\n", .{ name, full_path });
     std.process.exit(1);
 }
 

lib/std/Build/OptionsStep.zig

@@ -367,5 +367,5 @@ test "OptionsStep" {
         \\
     , options.contents.items);
 
-    _ = try std.zig.parse(arena.allocator(), try options.contents.toOwnedSliceSentinel(0));
+    _ = try std.zig.Ast.parse(arena.allocator(), try options.contents.toOwnedSliceSentinel(0), .zig);
 }

lib/std/array_hash_map.zig

@@ -1145,7 +1145,8 @@ pub fn ArrayHashMapUnmanaged(
         }
 
         /// Create a copy of the hash map which can be modified separately.
-        /// The copy uses the same context and allocator as this instance.
+        /// The copy uses the same context as this instance, but is allocated
+        /// with the provided allocator.
         pub fn clone(self: Self, allocator: Allocator) !Self {
             if (@sizeOf(ByIndexContext) != 0)
                 @compileError("Cannot infer context " ++ @typeName(Context) ++ ", call cloneContext instead.");

lib/std/zig.zig

@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ pub const Tokenizer = tokenizer.Tokenizer;
 pub const fmtId = fmt.fmtId;
 pub const fmtEscapes = fmt.fmtEscapes;
 pub const isValidId = fmt.isValidId;
-pub const parse = @import("zig/parse.zig").parse;
 pub const string_literal = @import("zig/string_literal.zig");
 pub const number_literal = @import("zig/number_literal.zig");
 pub const primitives = @import("zig/primitives.zig");

lib/std/zig/Ast.zig

@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
 //! Abstract Syntax Tree for Zig source code.
+//! For Zig syntax, the root node is at nodes[0] and contains the list of
+//! sub-nodes.
+//! For Zon syntax, the root node is at nodes[0] and contains lhs as the node
+//! index of the main expression.
 
 /// Reference to externally-owned data.
 source: [:0]const u8,
@@ -11,13 +15,6 @@ extra_data: []Node.Index,
 
 errors: []const Error,
 
-const std = @import("../std.zig");
-const assert = std.debug.assert;
-const testing = std.testing;
-const mem = std.mem;
-const Token = std.zig.Token;
-const Ast = @This();
-
 pub const TokenIndex = u32;
 pub const ByteOffset = u32;
 
@@ -34,7 +31,7 @@ pub const Location = struct {
     line_end: usize,
 };
 
-pub fn deinit(tree: *Ast, gpa: mem.Allocator) void {
+pub fn deinit(tree: *Ast, gpa: Allocator) void {
     tree.tokens.deinit(gpa);
     tree.nodes.deinit(gpa);
     gpa.free(tree.extra_data);
@@ -48,11 +45,69 @@ pub const RenderError = error{
     OutOfMemory,
 };
 
+pub const Mode = enum { zig, zon };
+
+/// Result should be freed with tree.deinit() when there are
+/// no more references to any of the tokens or nodes.
+pub fn parse(gpa: Allocator, source: [:0]const u8, mode: Mode) Allocator.Error!Ast {
+    var tokens = Ast.TokenList{};
+    defer tokens.deinit(gpa);
+
+    // Empirically, the zig std lib has an 8:1 ratio of source bytes to token count.
+    const estimated_token_count = source.len / 8;
+    try tokens.ensureTotalCapacity(gpa, estimated_token_count);
+
+    var tokenizer = std.zig.Tokenizer.init(source);
+    while (true) {
+        const token = tokenizer.next();
+        try tokens.append(gpa, .{
+            .tag = token.tag,
+            .start = @intCast(u32, token.loc.start),
+        });
+        if (token.tag == .eof) break;
+    }
+
+    var parser: Parse = .{
+        .source = source,
+        .gpa = gpa,
+        .token_tags = tokens.items(.tag),
+        .token_starts = tokens.items(.start),
+        .errors = .{},
+        .nodes = .{},
+        .extra_data = .{},
+        .scratch = .{},
+        .tok_i = 0,
+    };
+    defer parser.errors.deinit(gpa);
+    defer parser.nodes.deinit(gpa);
+    defer parser.extra_data.deinit(gpa);
+    defer parser.scratch.deinit(gpa);
+
+    // Empirically, Zig source code has a 2:1 ratio of tokens to AST nodes.
+    // Make sure at least 1 so we can use appendAssumeCapacity on the root node below.
+    const estimated_node_count = (tokens.len + 2) / 2;
+    try parser.nodes.ensureTotalCapacity(gpa, estimated_node_count);
+
+    switch (mode) {
+        .zig => try parser.parseRoot(),
+        .zon => try parser.parseZon(),
+    }
+
+    // TODO experiment with compacting the MultiArrayList slices here
+    return Ast{
+        .source = source,
+        .tokens = tokens.toOwnedSlice(),
+        .nodes = parser.nodes.toOwnedSlice(),
+        .extra_data = try parser.extra_data.toOwnedSlice(gpa),
+        .errors = try parser.errors.toOwnedSlice(gpa),
+    };
+}
+
 /// `gpa` is used for allocating the resulting formatted source code, as well as
 /// for allocating extra stack memory if needed, because this function utilizes recursion.
 /// Note: that's not actually true yet, see https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/1006.
 /// Caller owns the returned slice of bytes, allocated with `gpa`.
-pub fn render(tree: Ast, gpa: mem.Allocator) RenderError![]u8 {
+pub fn render(tree: Ast, gpa: Allocator) RenderError![]u8 {
     var buffer = std.ArrayList(u8).init(gpa);
     defer buffer.deinit();
 
@@ -3347,3 +3402,12 @@ pub const Node = struct {
         rparen: TokenIndex,
     };
 };
+
+const std = @import("../std.zig");
+const assert = std.debug.assert;
+const testing = std.testing;
+const mem = std.mem;
+const Token = std.zig.Token;
+const Ast = @This();
+const Allocator = std.mem.Allocator;
+const Parse = @import("Parse.zig");