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We introduce a new entry point for the compiler in
`dotty.tools.dotc.Driver`:
```
def process(args: Array[String], simple: interfaces.SimpleReporter,
callback: interfaces.CompilerCallback): interfaces.ReporterResult
```
Except for `args` which is just an array, the argument types and return
type of this method are Java interfaces defined in a new package called
`dotty-interfaces` which has a stable ABI. This means that you can
programmatically run a compiler with a custom reporter and callbacks
without having to recompile it against every version of dotty: you only
need to have `dotty-interfaces` present at compile-time and call the
`process` method using Java reflection.
See `test/test/InterfaceEntryPointTest.scala` for a concrete example.
This design is based on discussions with the IntelliJ IDEA Scala plugin
team. Thanks to Nikolay Tropin for the discussions and his PR
proposal (see #1011).
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