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Is Wolfram ever going to release a tree-sitter parser for the Wolfram Language?

Mma Usr
Posted 1 year ago

LSP (Language Server Protocol) modules generally do not provide code-aware syntax highlighting and navigation functionality.

This is where syntax parsing technology like tree-sitter comes into the picture.

https://tree-sitter.github.io/tree-sitter/

Official support for a tree-sitter parser would make creating 'wolfram modes' in editors like emacs, vscode, and neovim much easier.
POSTED BY: Mma Usr
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Posted 22 hours ago

Care to share your extension/template extension for adding the tree-sitter to it?

WAIT Before you do, perhaps I'll test its AI capabilities to create one myself? A little meta test, if you will.
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Probably :) I am in a very similar situation to what you're describing but for me it's Sublime that I keep coming back to time and again. Having said that, Zed is the one that I have stuck with the most out of everything else I've tried.

POSTED BY: Dimitar Krastev

Look at what you’ve done. Now I need to spend a month using Zed, since I just found out about it from you. :)

I have one ‘constant’ editor (emacs) and a huge path covered with the wasted corpses of editors I’ve left behind - BBEdit, Alpha (I even worked on alpha), Sublime, among them; now VSCode. Will Zed be the next in line?

As long as I can slap rough emacs navigation bindings on something I’ll try it. That stuff is embedded in my spine.
POSTED BY: Flip Phillips

It's unofficial but LumaKernel on GitHub has released a complete tree-sitter grammar for Wolfram Language. I just tested by wrapping it in a Zed extension and it works amicably.

POSTED BY: Dimitar Krastev
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