> First, TextMate / Sublime style syntax highlighting is not really all that great. It is quite slow, largely because it grinds through a lot of regular express

> First, TextMate / Sublime style syntax highlighting is not really all that great. It is quite slow, largely because it grinds through a lot of regular expressions with captures, and it is also not very precise. The tree-sitter framework provides a pretty good engine for syntax highlight: https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter