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Tree-sitter: a new parsing system for programming tools - GitHub Universe 2017
Max Brunsfeld of GitHub presents Tree-sitter, a parsing system for programming tools that supports incremental, error-tolerant parsing. He demos its integration into GitHub.com and Atom for syntax highlighting and code navigation.
Why HN readers recommended it
Recommended as the canonical introduction to tree-sitter and why fast incremental parsing enables live editor support.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- GitHub
- Topic
- incremental parsing
- Format
- talk
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2018–2022
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From the original HN conversations
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Tree-sitter is not just for code folding, it's a full-on incremental parser that's fast enough to run on every keystroke. See their expand selection example for another really compelling use-case. If you're interested in more details, there's also this talk from the developer behind tree-sitter …
lewisl9029 on Hacker News · 2018-03
In Atom 1.25They use tree-sitter [LINK] It's ok with errors in AST and just marks such nodes as invalid. There is a long (42 minutes) but worth to watch talk about tree-sitter [VIDEO] Or the shorter version (20 minutes) [LINK]
ris58h on Hacker News · 2022-04
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