Tree-sitter: Incremental Parsing and Error Recovery
Strange Loop Conference · Talk · 39 min · 2018 · YouTube title: "Tree-sitter - a new parsing system for programming tools" by Max Brunsfeld
Why it's here
HN points to it as the best explanation of tree-sitter's design choices and as an accessible introduction to parser generators.
What it covers
Max Brunsfeld introduces Tree-sitter, a parsing system for developer tools that offers incremental parsing and robust error recovery through a uniform C API. The talk explains the design, based on LR extended to GLR parsing.