Tree-sitter-bash Alternatives

tree-sitter-bash reviews and mentions

• Ask HN: What are some unpopular technologies you wish people knew more about?
  56 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Dec 2023

  (1) Zulip Chat - https://zulip.com/ - seems to be reasonably popular, but more people should know about it

  I’ve been using it for over 5 years now [1], and it’s as good as ever. It’s way faster than any other chat app I’ve used. It has a good UI and conversation model. It has a simple and functional API that lets me curl threads and write blog posts based on them.

  (only problem is that I Ctrl-+ in my browser to make the font bigger – I think it’s too dense for most people)

  (2) re2c regex to state machine compiler - https://re2c.org

  A gem from the 90’s, which people have done a great job maintaining and improving (getting Go and Rust target support in the last few years). I started using it in 2016, and used for a new program a few months ago. I came to the conclusion that it should have been built into C, because C has shitty string processing – and Ken Thompson both invented C AND brought regular languages to computing !!

  In comparison, treesitter lexers are very low level, fiddly, and error prone. I recently saw dozens of ad hoc fixes to the tree-sitter-bash lexer, which is unsurprising if you look at the structure of the code (manually crawling through backslashes and braces in C).

  https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-bash/blob/master/...

  These fixes are definitely appreciated, but I think it indicates a problem with the model itself.

  (based on https://lobste.rs/s/endspx/software_you_are_thankful_for#c_y...)

  [1] https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2018/04/26.html

• Emacs and Java Development: Corfu + Cape + LSP-Mode + Treesit
  21 projects | /r/emacs | 19 May 2023
• Treesiter problem with .bashrc
  4 projects | /r/neovim | 14 Mar 2023

  I ran into this issue as well a few weeks ago, there's already a few issues for it: https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-bash/issues/151

• Building tree-sitter languages for Emacs
  20 projects | /r/emacs | 30 Dec 2022
• Convert curl commands to code in several languages
  13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Mar 2022

  All 3 of these are linked to under "Related Tools".

  Those projects use a pretty basic tokenizer

  https://github.com/luckymarmot/Paw-cURLImporter/blob/master/...

  Insomnia and Postman use commander.js for their bash parsing which looks like it just splits on space:

  https://github.com/tj/commander.js/blob/02a124c7d58dbae2ef11...

  and only support a few of curl's options. Curlconverter uses tree-sitter's Bash grammar https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-bash/ and tries to at least correctly discard all of curl's options and any options that curl used to have.

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