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Ruby grammar for tree-sitter

8 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 0 stories, 8 comments · first 2017-02-13 · latest 2021-02-23

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  1. @chrisseaton you are correct, the JSON file is generated. The handwritten parts are: - https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-ruby/blob/32cd5a0... - https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-ruby/blob/32cd5a0... So about 2k loc. The…
    comment by tclem · 2021-02-23 · in Tree-sitter: an incremental parsing system for programming tools
  2. …features to do tree queries to achieve this. Here's the query for detecting Ruby locals: https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-ruby/blob/32cd5a0... and here's some better documentation for how the query language works:…
    comment by tclem · 2021-02-23 · in Tree-sitter: an incremental parsing system for programming tools
  3. …the Ruby grammar relies so heavily on an external scannar, which is just under 1,000 lines of C++: https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-ruby/blob/master/...
    comment by dcreager · 2021-02-22 · in Tree-sitter: an incremental parsing system for programming tools
  4. bison should be compared to https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-ruby/blob/master/... probably?
    comment by codesnik · 2021-02-22 · in Tree-sitter: an incremental parsing system for programming tools
  5. …actually an outlier from what I've seen; it has one of the largest/most complex external scanners: https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-ruby/blob/master/... Precisely because the language is complicated and less amenable to LR…
    comment by anaerobicover · 2021-02-22 · in Tree-sitter: an incremental parsing system for programming tools
  6. Tree-sitter is unfathomable to me. This is the grammar for Ruby: https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-ruby/blob/master/... I find it absolutely amazing that a grammar for something as complicated as Ruby can be so concise. Less than…
    comment by chrisseaton · 2021-02-22 · in Tree-sitter: an incremental parsing system for programming tools
  7. …tps://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-javascript * https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-go * https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-ruby
    comment by maxbrunsfeld · 2017-03-20 · in Show HN: How to write a recursive descent parser
  8. …* Go - https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-go * Ruby - https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-ruby * Python - https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-python
    comment by maxbrunsfeld · 2017-02-13 · in From AST to Lossless Syntax Tree