Swift system for working with language syntax
Neon
A system for working with language syntax.
Neon aims to provide facilities for highlighting, indenting, and querying the structure of language text in a performant way. It is based on tree-sitter, via SwiftTreeSitter.
The library is being extracted from the Chime editor. It’s a pretty complex system, and pulling it out is something we intend to do over time.
TreeSitterClient
This class is an asynchronous interface to tree-sitter. It provides an UTF16 code-point (NSString-compatible) API for edits, invalidations, and queries. It can process edits of String objects, or raw bytes for even greater flexibility and performance. Invalidations are translated to the current content state, even if a queue of edits are still being processed.
TreeSitterClient requires a function that can translate UTF16 code points (ie NSRange.location) to a tree-sitter Point (line + offset).
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