For those who don't already know, this is built on tree-sitter (https://tree-sitter.github.io/tree-sitter/) which does for parsing what LSP does for analysis. That is, it provides a standard interface for turning code into an AST and then making that AST available to clients like editors and diff tools. Instead of a neat tool like this having to support dozens of languages, it can just support tree-sitter and automatically work with anything that tree-sitter supports. And if you're developing a new language, you can create a tree-sitter parser for it, and now every tool that speaks tree-sitter knows how to support your language.
Those 2 massive innovations are leading to an explosion of tooling improvements like this. Now every editor, diff tool, or whatever can support dozens or hundreds of languages without having to duplicate all the work of every other similar tool. That's freaking amazing.
Those 2 massive innovations are leading to an explosion of tooling improvements like this. Now every editor, diff tool, or whatever can support dozens or hundreds of languages without having to duplicate all the work of every other similar tool. That's freaking amazing.