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tree-sitter
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Lezer: A Parsing System for CodeMirror, Inspired by Tree-Sitter
I learned from a google search that these days upstream tree-sitter provides WebAssembly bindings.
Source: https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/tree/master/lib/b...
NPM: https://www.npmjs.com/package/web-tree-sitter
Download from the latest Github release: js file (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/releases/download...) and wasm file (https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/releases/download...)
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Difftastic, a structural diff tool that understands syntax
Tree-sitter optimizes for performance (to use in editors), not for correctness. In fact even TS' core developers advocate for not bothering too much with correctness of grammars[1]. I imagine this constraint would be a deal-breaker for GitHub or anyone else in their position.
[1] https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/issues/130#issuec...
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Effective Neovim Setup. A Beginner’s Guide
This is a plugin that provides a simple way to use the tree-sitter in Neovim and also provides functionalities like highlighting, etc.
- An incremental parsing system for programming tools
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Topiary: A code formatting engine leveraging Tree-sitter
From the tree-sitter side, I am tracking https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/issues/1942
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Shiki Syntax Highlighter
Is tree-sitter really slower than TextMate grammars? Some benchmarks indicate that this isn't really the case [1]. On the other hand, breaking parse trees is a real issue, because the error-recovery in tree-sitter is pretty rudimentary [2][3], but as you said, it's not an issue for Shiki.
Several TextMate grammars suffer from inaccuracy bugs, and issues of maintainability. Perhaps the biggest hindrance in the adoption of tree-sitter, is that the most popular editor, VSCode, still doesn't support it.
[1]: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/161479
[2]: https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/issues/1870
[3]: https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/issues/224
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It seems that some BIG improvements of Treesitter on BIG FILEs have been merged into Nightly! (minutes ago!)
u/lewis6991 I think the biggest performance gain was made by tree-sitter itself: https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/pull/2085
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Looking for Tree-sitter query documentations and guides
I asked on the repo's discussions but responses are limited and not explanatory (I'm not shaming anyone here, discussions aren't a place for detailed how-tos and documentations anyway).
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Will Treesitter ever be stable on big files?
The following discussion here. TS query cannot be incremental, that is why I regard it as design fault.
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Detailed syntax highlighting
Hi, so I've recently decided to give Neovim yet another try, this time using some predefined plugins with kickstart.nvim, for syntax it uses tree-sitter.
difftastic
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Linus Torvalds adds arbitrary tabs to kernel code
i want a diff tool that shows me exactly which tokens have changed, and which haven't, regardless of how they are laid out.
These already exist: https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic
when we get that, then we should get even less merge conflicts.
Counterintuitively, that is not the case. AST-merge is a much, much, much, much, much harder problem than AST-diff.
https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic?tab=readme-ov-file#can...
The fact that diffs can be used to drive a 3-way merge is in fact an accidental property that arises due to the sheer crudeness of the diff format. As soon as you start using more-sophisticated diff formats, solutions to "the diff problem" no longer lead directly to solutions to "the merge problem".
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Difftastic, a structural diff tool that understands syntax
Yes there is an `—-override` option you can use to specify the language in which a file should be parsed.
https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic/blob/master/CHANGELOG....
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So You Think You Know Git – Git Tips and Tricks by Scott Chacon
Use the fantastic difftastic instead of git's diff. https://difftastic.wilfred.me.uk/
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- Difftastic: A structural diff tool that understands syntax
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SemanticDiff now supports Rust
difftastic provides similar capabilities in a free tool based on treesitter
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My programming language aware diff for VS Code and GitHub now supports Rust
difftastic? https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic
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Prettier $20k Bounty was Claimed
If you're looking for a VS Code extension or a GitHub app, check out https://semanticdiff.com/. I'm a co-founder of this project.
If you prefer a CLI tool, check out https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic. It supports more languages, but doesn't recognize when code has been replaced by an equivalent version ("invariances"). So it will show some changes (e.g. replacing a character in a string with an escape sequence) even though they are technically equivalent.
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Pijul: Version-Control Post-Git • Goto 2023
Shameless plug: I've written difftastic[1], a tool that builds ASTs and then does a structural diff of them. You can use it with git too.
It's an incredibly hard problem though, both from a computational complexity point of view, and trying to build a comprehensible UI once you've done the structural AST diff.
[1]: https://github.com/wilfred/difftastic
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Always leave a trailing comma in Python lists, dicts, tuples
There is a diff tool called difftastic: https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic
The idea is that it does not show diff based on text change, but on syntastic meaning. For that, it uses tree-sitter.
I think it still shows the trailing comma in the situation as shown in the article, but it's quite different experience than the standard text based diff.
What are some alternatives?
nvim-treesitter - Nvim Treesitter configurations and abstraction layer
delta - A syntax-highlighting pager for git, diff, and grep output
Visual Studio Code - Visual Studio Code
diffsitter - A tree-sitter based AST difftool to get meaningful semantic diffs
indent-blankline.nvim - Indent guides for Neovim
neogit - An interactive and powerful Git interface for Neovim, inspired by Magit
doom-emacs - An Emacs framework for the stubborn martian hacker [Moved to: https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs]
language-server-protocol - Defines a common protocol for language servers.
gumtree - An awesome code differencing tool
coc-explorer - 📁 Explorer for coc.nvim
tree-sitter-cpp - C++ grammar for tree-sitter