On Fri, 27 Dec 2024, 14:20 Philip Kaludercic, <philipk@posteo.net> wrote:

> Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org> writes:
>
> > Why not just vendor all the grammars with the Emacs modes that use them?
>
> I am guessing part of the reason is that TS grammars are not fun to
> build.  IIRC they are specified in a Javascript DSL (that used to
> require node.js but AFAIU works with other implementations as well),
> that a program written in Rust translates to C code.


It's probably worth mentioning that the generated C code is included in the
Git repositories, these days along with a Makefile.  So, if you're only
building rather than developing the grammars, you can simply run `make &&
make install` or similar.

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Peter Oliver