Sorry for my super late reply, and thank you for answering!

On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 12:41 AM Ian Lance Taylor <i...@golang.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 2:39 AM, Hajime Hoshi <hajimeho...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > It looks like package cmd/compile/internal/gc includes tokenizer, parser
> or
> > others for completion, and there are also other packages like go/parser,
> > go/ast and so on for the same features. As gc code looks likes pretty old
> > (this was converted from C at Go 1.5 AFAIR), will this be replaced with
> go/*
> > packages in the future?
>
> It's not particularly likely that cmd/compile/internal/gc will be
> replaced by go/parser, go/ast, and friends.  The packages are
> optimized in different ways for different purposes.  It is likely that
> cmd/compile/internal/gc will continue to be rewritten and improved
> from its original C roots.  There was a lot of work on that in the 1.9
> cycle, and it will continue.
>
> Ian
>

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