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josteink

Tooting my own horn, Emacs’ csharp-mode[1] is undergoing a rewrite to be 100% based on tree-sitter rather than regexps.

The new code runs way faster and is so much nicer to work with.

Once all the kinks are gone, I can’t imagine going back.

[1] https://github.com/emacs-csharp/csharp-mode/blob/master/csha...

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This looks awesome! Do you mind elaborating on any kinks which you found?

A few:

- indentation may be fine for a final doc, but not always while editing. Especially for new lines starting new code-blocks.

- adding new syntax not already known by tree-sitter requires up streaming to at least 2 repos before we can use it in a released version of our package. This can feel less hands on and slow than working in a single repo where you have full control.

No super-biggies yet though.

When tree-sitter reaches 1.0 [0], it may be possible to eliminate the tree-sitter-langs upstream, or both.

[0]: https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/issues/930

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