Re: Call for volunteers: add tree-sitter support to major modes

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2022 22:14:36 -0700
> Cc: Theodor Thornhill <theo@thornhill.no>,
>  Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
>  Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>,
>  emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,
>  jostein@kjonigsen.net
> 
> Tree-sitter library and the “official” language definitions are all MIT 
> licensed. So nothing prevents us from including it copyright-wise.

I see no reason whatsoever to consider bundling tree-sitter.  Building
it is very easy, and w=once Emacs starts using it seriously, the Emacs
distros will take care of offering suitable tree-sitter distributions.

> > My opinion is that Emacs should not degrade its text editing
> > capabilities so drastically if a non-system library (i.e. not ncurses or
> > Xlib) is not present.
> 
> Considering that Emacs currently doesn’t have C# and typescript support in 
> core at all, I wouldn’t call it a downgrade. But I agree the idea that a 
> major mode requiring external dependency to function is not very comfortable.

I don't agree, and don't feel myself uncomfortable at all.  For the
same reason I don't feel uncomfortable because we use HarfBuzz for
rendering and GnuTLS for networking.