Xi-editor: Add tree-sitter for syntax-highlighting, indentation, block-selection...
Rust's FFI to C should allow integration of the tree-sitter parser.
Also, I think that tree-sitter should fit well with Xi's performance goals
Also, tree-sitter's API should be avaliable to Xi-Plugin providers, so more features (than just syntax-highlighting) could be added independently by plugin-contributors.
https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter
(btw tree-sitter is also mentioned in #424)
clojj
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Tree sitter now has official rust bindings.
mwilliammyers
on 5 Oct 2018
we definitely wouldn't put tree-sitter in core, but I could very easily imagine using tree-sitter as an alternative to syntect. It's other features are also interesting; it's sort of sitting between just being a syntax highlighter and being something closer to a language server. Would be curious to see some performance details. :)
cmyr
on 6 Oct 2018
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we definitely wouldn't put tree-sitter in core, but I could very easily imagine using tree-sitter as an alternative to syntect. It's other features are also interesting; it's sort of sitting between just being a syntax highlighter and being something closer to a language server. Would be curious to see some performance details. :)