Re: Why tree-sitter instead of Semantic? (was Re: CC Mode with font-lock-maximum-decoration 2)

[Po Lu]

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 superceded by external solutions like tree-sitter or LSP-based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.)