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Re: Why tree-sitter instead of Semantic? (was Re: CC Mode with font-lock


From: Po Lu
Subject: Re: Why tree-sitter instead of Semantic? (was Re: CC Mode with font-lock-maximum-decoration 2)
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2022 10:14:58 +0800
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.91 (gnu/linux)

Lynn Winebarger <owinebar@gmail.com> writes:

> I'm curious, though, as to why Semantic/CEDET seems to have been
> superceded by external solutions like tree-sitter or LSP-based
> (non-emacs) servers.  One of the draws of Emacs for me is the
> "batteries included" nature of it having Emacs Lisp built in.  Is
> there a downside to using Semantic as the basis for improving my
> derived mode that's non-obvious?

I think Semantic lost intertia after the original author lost interest
in it (or left for unrelated reasons, I don't remember which.)


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