> You would only get the top half of your code highlighted because a compiler Your comment implies a language server taps into the language's compiler/interpre

> You would only get the top half of your code highlighted because a compiler Your comment implies a language server taps into the language's compiler/interpreter. That is a popular misconception. Almost all LSP severs don't actually use the compiler backend of the language they are servicing. All the LSP server implementations I've seen at least just use a static parsing approach (or even worse i.e. just a tokenizer) similar to what Treesitter does. It is just not limited to a single file. That's why I still think Treesitter has the potential to not only improve syntax highlighting but also to simplify language servers or even -- in the long run with some extensions of the the language modes -- replace it altogether.