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# tree-sitter
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[](https://travis-ci.org/tree-sitter/tree-sitter)
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[](https://ci.appveyor.com/project/maxbrunsfeld/tree-sitter/branch/master)
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Tree-sitter is a parser generator tool and an incremental parsing library. It can build a concrete syntax tree for a source file and efficiently update the syntax tree as the source file is edited. Tree-sitter aims to be:
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* **General** enough to parse any programming language
* **Fast** enough to parse on every keystroke in a text editor
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* **Robust** enough to provide useful results even in the presence of syntax errors
* **Dependency-free** so that the runtime library (which is written in pure C) can be embedded in any application
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[Documentation ](http://tree-sitter.github.io/tree-sitter/ )
