Re: Tree Sitter (was Re: cc-mode fontification feels random)

[Perry E. Metzger]

On 7/20/21 20:04, Stephen Leake wrote:
> Yes. wisi.el is an elisp interface to an external process that is
> implemented in Ada. At some point, it will also support an internal
> module, which will avoid having to send text; larger files will be
> faster. When I finish implementing incremental parse, it should be as
> fast as tree-sitter.

I agree that Ada is in many ways a superior language to C -- C is horrid 
-- but Emacs is written in C, and having a core feature of Emacs depend 
on Ada code is unlikely to be widely acceptable. Everyone compiling 
Emacs has a C compiler, but not everyone has an Ada compiler. Making an 
Ada compiler a prerequisite to compiling Emacs might be controversial.

Perry

(*C + elisp, but of course the elisp infrastructure is written in C and 
ships with Emacs.)