website VS treesit-auto

I've rewritten this website, my partner's website, my university rugby club's website. I'm moving my Applied Genomics course website to Starlight, the Astro team's documentation framework. The nf-core site has been rewritten in Astro and Svelte from PHP. I'm all in.

Or you can take the red pill and use treesit-auto and automatically install the language grammar.

So far I've been using tree-sitter.el with the tree-sitter-hl-mode for syntax highlighting. As far as I understand, Tree Sitter is now built-into Emacs 29 and above as treesit (https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/admin/notes/tree-sitter/starter-guide), which makes tree-sitter.el obsolete. There is also this package https://github.com/renzmann/treesit-auto which seems to handle the installation, mapping and activation of the language modes.

If you want it to use the ts modes by default then you'll have to adjust the major-mode-remap-alist variable. Or give the treesit-auto package a shot.

Over the last couple weeks while putting the treesit-auto package together it gained adoption much faster than I had expected. While I'm incredibly happy others found it useful, that also means that many assumptions in my hacky code were quickly blown apart. Also, in no small part due to my poor documentation, it was confusing to figure out exactly how/what would be supported when trying to add a new language.

GitHub for treesit-auto Original announcement of treesit-auto Blog post that inspired treesit-auto

/u/casouri posted an article recently about getting started with tree-sitter. Unfortunately, it mentioned that automatic switching between those tree-sitter modes and the default modes (e.g. between python-mode and python-ts-mode won't be coming just yet, but there was a suggested workaround. I took a slightly different approach from what was outlined, and wound up with treesit-auto.el, which is customizable, and I think hits all the intended behavior.