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Worth calling out that the syntax highlighting support is used to highlight several languages in github.com. (Linguist is still used for the long tail of langu
by dcreager 6y ago
Worth calling out that the syntax highlighting support is used to highlight several languages in github.com. (Linguist is still used for the long tail of languages, but we plan to migrate more and more over to tree-sitter-based highlighting over time.)
The query language is also what's used to drive the fuzzy/ctags-like Code Navigation feature. Both of those are powered by tree-sitter query files defined in each language's repo, like these for Go: https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-go/tree/master/queries https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-go/tree/master/qu...
- eins1234 6y agoAwesome to hear that amazing tech like tree-sitter lives on even though Atom, the product it was built for, is pretty much on life support at this point. Curious if there's any efforts to bring tree-sitter to VSCode? Exposing tree-sitter to extensions could open up so many possibilities like OP mentioned.
- The_rationalist 6y agohttps://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/77140 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/77140