bynk-render

The shared diagnostic-rendering layer for the Bynk compiler.

Given a slice of bynk_syntax::CompileError plus the source and a filename, it produces the human and machine forms of a Bynk diagnostic:

• human — rich, source-pointing ariadne output (with a colourless variant for byte-stable transcripts), and
• short — one terse path:line:col: severity[category]: message line per error, the format the editor problem-matcher parses.

The per-line pieces (short_line, severity_word) are public too, so a front-end composing its own line output stays byte-identical to short.

Both CLI front-ends render through this one crate, so bynkc and bynk display the same error identically — and the short form is what the VS Code problem-matcher parses. The crate is a pure presentation layer: it depends on bynk-syntax only (plus ariadne) and never sees the checker or emitter — structured diagnostics flow down into it, never the other way.

Where it sits

bynk-render sits directly on the bynk-syntax leaf:

bynk-syntax                lexer, parser, AST, CompileError, diagnostic codes
├── bynk-project           project model: discovery, unit graph, paths
├── bynk-ts                the TypeScript tree and its printer
├── bynk-render            diagnostic rendering
├── bynk-fmt               the formatter
└── bynk-check             name resolution and type checking   + project
    ├── bynk-ir            declaration-level IR
    │   └── bynk-lower     AST → IR helpers
    ├── bynk-emit          build sequencing, TS emission       + ts, ir, lower, project
    │   ├── bynk-strip     TS → JS type-stripping              + ts
    │   └── bynk-driver    shared CLI command bodies           + fmt, render, ts
    └── bynk-ide           non-bailing editor analysis         + project, fmt

Each crate depends on its parent in the tree, plus any crates listed after its +. The front-ends sit on top: the bynkc and bynk CLIs over bynk-driver, the bynkc-lsp language server (bynk-lsp) over bynk-ide, and the unpublished bynk-wasm playground module over bynk-emit, bynk-strip, and bynk-ide.

Most users see this crate's output through the bynkc / bynk CLIs (via bynk-driver) rather than depending on it directly.

Use

[dependencies]
bynk-render = "0.307"

// `errors: &[bynk_syntax::CompileError]`, with the source and a label.
bynk_render::print_errors(errors, source, filename);          // ariadne, to stderr
let short = bynk_render::render_errors_short(errors, source, filename);

See the API docs for the full surface.

License

Licensed under either of Apache-2.0 or MIT at your option.