Tree-sitter - A New Parsing System for Programming Tools

Explore a conference talk on Tree-sitter, a revolutionary parsing system designed to enhance programming tools. Dive into the capabilities of this system, which provides a uniform C API for parsing multiple languages with high-performance incremental parsing and robust error recovery. Learn how Tree-sitter is being integrated into GitHub.com and the Atom text editor to improve code analysis, syntax highlighting, navigation, and refactoring. Discover the interesting algorithms behind Tree-sitter, including LR and GLR parsing techniques, and gain insights into its potential future applications. Understand how this system aims to overcome the limitations of regex-based code analysis in multi-language developer tools, offering real-time parsing capabilities for text editors.