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		0x008 on Nov 24, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tree Sitter and the Complications of Parsing Langu... Not coming from the vim/eMacs world, I fail to understand what treesitter is compare to a language server? Why would I need both?

dbalatero on Nov 24, 2021 [–]

The article talks about why LSP servers don't typically implement syntax highlighting (performance).

petepete on Nov 24, 2021 | [–]

Here's a great video on the topic by one of Neovim's core team

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c17j09vY5sw

0x008 on Nov 24, 2021 | | [–]

thank's that is very helpful.

I was wondering if the both were to achieve similar goals it makes no sense to run them both, but now I can educate myself.

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