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Before this conversation is railroaded by talk about language servers, as the article points out, tree sitter tends to need to be a bit closer to the environmen

by aidos 5y ago

Before this conversation is railroaded by talk about language servers, as the article points out, tree sitter tends to need to be a bit closer to the environment to be effective. There’s still work to do, but having tree sitter in neovim feels like a great step forward.

omnicognate 5y ago
Yes, it's more for syntax highlighting where you don't want the lag of an external server and don't need the deep language analysis needed for diagnostics, refactoring, etc. I'm not sure what other use cases it would be superior to LSP for, but I'm sure there are some.
- clktmr 5y ago
  It can also be used for text editing, e.g. changing, deleting, swapping of function arguments or any other text object defined by the language syntax.
  - yakubin 5y ago
    Cursor movement as well.
mickeyp 5y ago
Author here. Yes, both are very useful, with some overlap of purpose, but work well together.
- aidos 5y ago
  Thanks for the article. Even though I'm not active on the development side in either editor, I love the idea that people are toiling away on these same sorts of enhancements in both environments (and I get the benefit in neovim).