Create Morphir Parsing Frontend

[DamianReeves]

Create Morphir Parsing Frontend

We want to make it easier to add new front-ends to Morphir. One way we are looking at doing this is by creating:

• A Morphir language dialect (we want to fork one of the tree-sitter parsers for either Elm or Gleam, I'm thinking Gleam)
• A Morphir AST
• A way to map other parsers onto the Morphir AST (for example, directly map Elm and/or Gleam onto Morphir)
• The AST should capture enough info to feed into the type inferencer.

Tech

We can get "free" parsers by leveraging tree-sitter parsers. We want to explore using tree-sitter parsers as a frontend to parsing.

[stephengoldbaum]

It would be most helpful to understand what functionality this addresses for the community. Are teams considering replacing Elm as their authoring language? How will this help? For those teams, is Gleam any more palatable? Basically, why are we considering doing this?