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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon edbee

Treesitter support for language parsing

Open gamecreature opened this issue 6 years ago • 4 comments

https://youtu.be/Jes3bD6P0To.

https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter

gamecreature avatar Dec 17 '18 13:12 gamecreature

Bookmarked both links, thanks to share!

brupelo avatar Mar 13 '19 09:03 brupelo

Already watched the video... after spending the last weeks getting familiar with almost all existing textmate derivative work living in github I wonder now... is there any good reason of considering textmate syntax&highlighting instead tree-sitter approach? And the only reason that comes to my mind is just one:

There are lots of existing textmate bundles for almost all languages ready to consume... can you think of any other advantages of textmate vs treesitter in terms of expected quality?

brupelo avatar Mar 13 '19 10:03 brupelo

Indeed the last one is a good reason... Changing the code to tree-sitter, isn't very trival either. With tree-sitter you are limited to the parsers writter for it

gamecreature avatar Mar 14 '19 10:03 gamecreature

Yeah... Plus, writting new tree-sitter grammars wouldn't be a 5min job neither. Now... I wonder, the way the author sold wonderfully his product on the video looked like textmate syntax being really limited but i wonder, is that really so? I mean, wouldn't some of the presented textmate problems in the video solvable somehow? Or are they really true limitations inherent to the fact of using regular expressions?

brupelo avatar Mar 14 '19 10:03 brupelo