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| From: | Óscar Fuentes |
| Subject: | Re: [SPAM UNSURE] Maybe we're taking a wrong approach towards tree-sitter |
| Date: | Fri, 30 Jul 2021 14:52:01 +0200 |
| User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com> writes: > I undestand that having specialized regex matcher is more efficient than > some generalized regular matcher current font-locking in Emacs relies > upon, but is it *that* more efficient to be worth the extra troubles? AFAIU this is not about efficience, but mainly about correctness (modern languages are increasingly more difficult to analyze) and also about decreasing the maintenance load. In the process, Emacs gets support for some new languages too.
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