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Until TreeSitter came along the effort to add support for new languages to your editor would be gargantuan. Now it's much, much easier providing there's a Tree
by petepete 3y ago
Until TreeSitter came along the effort to add support for new languages to your editor would be gargantuan.
Now it's much, much easier providing there's a TreeSitter parser for your language.
I don't know of anything else that bridges the gap like this.
- tgv 3y agoNote that not that long ago, computers were simply not powerful enough to run that in acceptable time. Dedicated parsers can be much faster.