Tree - Sitter For Dummies

- Video date Feb. 7, 2021

- Decent high level into to tree - sitter

- Not really necessary to watch if you read these notes

- It's from GitHub

- It's language agnostic

- You write a grammar for languages

- Does pretty well at parsing small incremental sections

- pretty good at not choking on intermediat things (e.g. when you're tying a string but haven't closed the quotes yet)

- There's a query language built in

- video shows a basic parsing example

- Command to turn it on is

: TSBufEneable highlight

- There's a Tree - Sitter playground that can be useful for developing

: TSPlaygroundToggle

- Can power code folding too

- Can be used to power selecitions like getting parents

- Tree - Sitter is also very fast

- Tree - Sitter tends to be faster than LSPs for some internal single file operations.