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

[Ketevan Lomidze]

On Mon, 17 Oct 2022 18:04:23 -0400
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

> > I would like to keep all of CC Mode's user features in the new mode, if
> > at all possible.  I don't know how easy it will be, for example, to keep
> > CC Mode's indentation styles working in the new mode.
>
> I suspect this will take a while.  But we're not aiming that high: we
> want to offer a "basic" tree-sitter functionality in Emacs-29.1 so users
> can start trying it out and using it if they like it (but they can also
> just keep using the current CC-mode engine if the tree-sitter code is
> not flexible for them yet) and then we can try and integrate the
> indentation styles at a later time.
>
>
>         Stefan

CC Mode handles too many languages by itself, this is impressive yet it seems
unnecessarily hard.  Wouldn't it be better if each language has its
own mode?