From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
To: Andrei Kuznetsov <r12451428287@163.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [SPAM UNSURE] Maybe we're taking a wrong approach towards tree-sitter
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2021 20:53:38 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86v94v3xh9.fsf@stephe-leake.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8735rzyzbz.fsf@163.com> (Andrei Kuznetsov's message of "Wed, 28 Jul 2021 09:57:52 +0800")
Andrei Kuznetsov <r12451428287@163.com> writes:
> it seemed as if consensus has been reached that
> Emacs will provide optional functionality integrating yet another
> external package, this time tree-sitter.
>
> Unlike features like native JSON, however, I believe tree-sitter is the
> first optional package providing notable functionality that would
> require a toolchain that depends on LLVM (that of Rust, which
> tree-sitter is implemented in), and is therefore inaccessible to people
> not running popular systems;
The tree-sitter runtime, that Emacs would link with, it implemented in
C, partly for this reason. It would be compiled with whatever Emacs is
compiled with, or the system compiler.
Some of the tree-sitter development tools are implemented in Rust; you
only need Rust if you are developing/fixing a grammar for a language.
--
-- Stephe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-28 3:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-28 1:57 Maybe we're taking a wrong approach towards tree-sitter Andrei Kuznetsov
2021-07-28 3:53 ` Stephen Leake [this message]
2021-07-28 8:23 ` [SPAM UNSURE] " Manuel Giraud
2021-07-28 11:48 ` Andrei Kuznetsov
2021-07-28 13:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-28 13:14 ` Andrei Kuznetsov
2021-07-28 13:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-28 13:31 ` Andrei Kuznetsov
2021-07-28 14:24 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-07-28 14:36 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-07-28 14:51 ` Daniele Nicolodi
2021-07-28 16:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-28 16:24 ` Perry E. Metzger
2021-07-28 16:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-29 23:12 ` Stephen Leake
2021-07-29 23:21 ` Yuan Fu
2021-07-30 18:38 ` Stephen Leake
2021-07-30 0:41 ` Andrei Kuznetsov
2021-07-30 12:06 ` Arthur Miller
2021-07-30 12:52 ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-07-30 13:30 ` Arthur Miller
2021-07-30 13:57 ` Ergus
2021-07-30 14:52 ` Arthur Miller
2021-07-30 13:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-30 15:45 ` Arthur Miller
2021-07-30 13:32 ` Ergus
2021-07-30 15:07 ` Arthur Miller
2021-08-02 22:13 ` Perry E. Metzger
2021-07-30 18:42 ` Stephen Leake
2021-07-30 6:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-31 12:12 ` Stephen Leake
2021-07-31 13:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-31 16:55 ` Stephen Leake
2021-07-31 17:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-28 11:43 ` Andrei Kuznetsov
2021-07-28 11:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-28 12:06 ` Andrei Kuznetsov
2021-07-28 13:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-28 13:16 ` Andrei Kuznetsov
2021-07-28 12:36 ` Ergus
2021-07-28 13:07 ` Andrei Kuznetsov
2021-07-28 13:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-28 13:27 ` Andrei Kuznetsov
2021-07-28 13:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-28 13:38 ` Andrei Kuznetsov
2021-07-28 14:41 ` Manuel Giraud
2021-07-28 15:15 ` Perry E. Metzger
2021-07-28 16:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-29 23:25 ` [SPAM UNSURE] " Stephen Leake
2021-07-30 0:54 ` Andrei Kuznetsov
2021-07-30 3:02 ` Andrei Kuznetsov
2021-07-30 18:48 ` Stephen Leake
2021-07-28 15:12 ` Perry E. Metzger
2021-07-29 23:28 ` Stephen Leake
2021-07-30 0:19 ` Perry E. Metzger
2021-07-30 18:44 ` [SPAM UNSURE] " Stephen Leake
2021-07-29 4:35 ` Richard Stallman
2021-07-28 15:09 ` Perry E. Metzger
2021-07-29 23:35 ` Stephen Leake
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