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> the query DSL would be a bit more sophisticated, allowing you to specify the actual name resolution rules of your language.

This sounds very interesting. Will the query DSL (spec) be available to the public?

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That's the current plan! In particular, because we want to allow language communities to implement support for their own languages, and not have to be blocked on my team finding the time to do it. (Just like they can do now with the parser and syntax highlighting / fuzzy code nav rules.) Linguist is our role model here — it currently includes language detection and (regex-based) syntax highlighting rules for 500+ languages. Most of those are contributed by the community. There's no way that my team can migrate all of those in any reasonable amount of time, especially while having to balance that with other feature development and operational responsibilities.

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