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Introduction

Introduction

Tree-sitter is an incremental parsing library. It can be used to build a concrete syntax tree for a source file and to efficiently update the syntax tree as the source file is edited. Tree-sitter aims to be:

  • General enough to parse any programming language
  • Fast enough to parse on every keystroke in a text editor
  • Robust enough to provide useful results even in the presence of syntax errors,
  • Dependency-free (and written in pure C) so that it can be embedded in any application

Language Bindings

There are currently bindings that allow Tree-sitter to be used from the following languages:

Available Parsers

Parsers for these languages are fairly complete:

Parsers for these languages are in development:

Talks on Tree-sitter

Underlying Research

The design of Tree-sitter was greatly influenced by the following research papers: