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

[Po Lu]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> 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.

How relevant is fontification for editing code, and how relevant are
HarfBuzz and GnuTLS for the same?

Emacs is very useful for editing code without any of HarfBuzz, Xft,
Cairo, and TLS support.  If CC Mode dies a "slow, deprecated death",
then Emacs will not be useful at all without tree-sitter installed.