Re: tree-sitter and emacs-devel

[Stefan Monnier]

>> > I remember a similar situation on the emacs-bidi mailing list 15 years
>> > ago when the bidirectional editing support for Emacs was just a pipe dream.
>> That was a completely different situation.  tree-sitter is very far from
>> a pipe dream (the initial Git commit dates back to 2013).
> You may not remember it, but at the time I mentioned we had a working
> prototype of bidi Emacs.  It was even demonstrated at a conference in
> Japan in the year 2000.  So the situation is not really that
> different.

But AFAIK noone here is planning to implement a new parser to *replace*
tree-sitter, so again, this is not a comparable situation at all.

In the LSP world, `tree-sitter` would be like an LSP server, and
`emacs-tree-sitter` would be like eglot.el.


        Stefan