alt Hacker NewsIt's a Rust library (comprised of a bunch of crates) that wraps a high-performance, high-accuracy syntax highlighter (called Tree-sitter) with vetted support for almost 100 programming/markup languages.
You can use it as a normal Rust library, or you can use the JavaScript/WASM wrapper to highlight source code on a web page.
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gorjusborg • yesterday at 4:23 PM
Is the 'regex hater club' subtitle related to using regex to 'parse' rather than using something like tree-sitter that actually parses?
I also had a hard time understanding the context given just the link.
> high-accuracy syntax highlighter (called Tree-sitter)
Just wanted to note that tree-sitter is lower-level and more general: it's an incremental parser that is specialised for gracefully and efficiently parsing partially-correct code snippets or code being edited live.
It's an important building block of the highlighter, but it needs more on top to complete the package. It can be used for anything that requires awareness of code structure in an editor.