alt Hacker NewsWell, if you're programming in C or C++, there may not be a parse tree. Tree-sitter makes a best effort attempt to parse but it can't in general due to the preprocessor.
Well, if you're programming in C or C++, there may not be a parse tree. Tree-sitter makes a best effort attempt to parse but it can't in general due to the preprocessor.
Great point. C/C++ with macros and preprocessor directives is where tree-sitter's error recovery gets stretched. We support both C and C++ in sem-core(https://github.com/Ataraxy-Labs/sem) but the entity extraction is best-effort for heavily macro'd code. For most application-level C++ it works well, but something like the Linux kernel would be rough. Honestly that's an argument for gritzko's AST-native storage approach where the parser can be more tightly integrated.