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		olau on Sept 14, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Let's write a treesitter major mode for Emacs It's a tough problem. Steve Yegge blogged about the complexities involved when he wrote js2-mode: https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/03/js2-mode-new-javasc... I guess comp. sci. people studying languages have been more interested in syntactically valid programs than the opposite.

mbork_pl on Sept 14, 2023 [–]

Well, I bet most syntactically valid programs are not interested in comp-sci people!

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