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The limitations are that these are very plain regexes. I've screwed up a good amount of time doing that, it's not good enough. We need actual structured semanti

The limitations are that these are very plain regexes. I've screwed up a good amount of time doing that, it's not good enough. We need actual structured semantic analysis, the way the compiler / interpreter does it.

bbkane 4y ago
This sounds like a great use case for Tree-sitter ( https://tree-sitter.github.io/tree-sitter/ https://tree-sitter.github.io/tree-sitter/ ) GitHub uses Tree-sitter for code highlighting and goto definition, so it already has grammars for many languages
- pdimitar 4y ago
  Sure, but that's a library AFAIR. I am talking about an actual CLI tool.
- abrichr 4y ago
  Thanks for the link! This looks interesting. I agree with the parent comment that we need better tools. Perhaps this would be a good starting point.