syntect VS tree-sitter-comment

Compare syntect vs tree-sitter-comment and see what are their differences.

syntect

Rust library for syntax highlighting using Sublime Text syntax definitions. (by trishume)

tree-sitter-comment

Tree-sitter grammar for comment tags like TODO, FIXME(user). (by stsewd)
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syntect tree-sitter-comment
5 6
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7.1 5.3
about 10 hours ago 4 months ago
Rust C
MIT License MIT License
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syntect

Posts with mentions or reviews of syntect. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-05.

tree-sitter-comment

Posts with mentions or reviews of tree-sitter-comment. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-13.
  • Documentation Comment highlighting with TreeSitter
    7 projects | /r/neovim | 13 May 2023
    As far as I know there is currently no treesitter parser for Doxygen style comments. There is a language agnostic comment parser that is supported by nvim-treesitter that will highlight things like TODO: and NOTE: in comments. Until this recent commit nvim-treesitter provided a query for this parser that highlighted @ text in comments. It was meant to highlight a reference to a user but it doubled as a doxygen tag highlight for me for a while. I just noticed that this query has been removed and I'm not sure why but you can add it as a custom query in your Neovim config. I have yet to try this so you'll have to refer to the Neovim treesitter docs for where to add the query.
  • emacs-29: Using treesitter to highlight keywords in comments
    1 project | /r/emacs | 10 Mar 2023
    I'm not sure how to use this in Emacs, but there's also a tree-sitter grammar specifically for comment blocks, including TODOs: https://github.com/stsewd/tree-sitter-comment
  • Will Treesitter ever be stable on big files?
    8 projects | /r/neovim | 16 Feb 2023
    you mean this one? https://github.com/stsewd/tree-sitter-comment
  • paint.nvim: Simple Neovim plugin to easily add additional highlights to your buffers
    3 projects | /r/neovim | 16 Nov 2022
    The reason I implemented this is because of the slow performance of tree-sitter-comment in large files. Treesitter will inject the comment language for every line comment, which is far from ideal. I've disabled the comment parser, but still wanted to see @something highlighted in Lua comments.
  • Treesitter query not working
    2 projects | /r/neovim | 30 Aug 2022
    The right most window shows the code I want to query. This is a .cpp file, so the main-language is C++. For highlighting the two comments, I'm using tree-sitter-comment. This plugin injects the comment-language. I want to query all tag nodes from this injected language, but this query does not work.
  • Is it possible to get highlight on these comments docs with treesitter?
    3 projects | /r/neovim | 8 Dec 2021
    You can install this parser for treesitter which highlights comments :)

What are some alternatives?

When comparing syntect and tree-sitter-comment you can also consider the following projects:

confy - 🛋 Zero-boilerplate configuration management in Rust

tree-sitter-go-template - Golang template grammar for tree-sitter

ammonia - Repair and secure untrusted HTML

tsdoc - A doc comment standard for TypeScript

guess-that-lang - CLI game to see how fast you can guess the language of a code block!

nvim-treesitter - Nvim Treesitter configurations and abstraction layer

rust-build.action - Automate publishing Rust build artifacts for GitHub releases through GitHub Actions

giscus - A comment system powered by GitHub Discussions. :octocat: :speech_balloon: :gem:

sublime-monokai-extended - Extends Monokai from Soda with additional syntax highlighting for Markdown, LESS, HTML, Handlebars and more.

comments - Native comments for your Laravel application.

starship - ☄🌌️ The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell!

DoxyGen-Syntax - DoxyGen Highlighting on top of c/c++/java