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bbkane on May 22, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: What developer tools would you like to see...

This sounds like a great use case for Tree-sitter ( https://tree-sitter.github.io/tree-sitter/ )

GitHub uses Tree-sitter for code highlighting and goto definition, so it already has grammars for many languages

abrichr on May 24, 2022 | [–]

Thanks for the link! This looks interesting. I agree with the parent comment that we need better tools. Perhaps this would be a good starting point.

pdimitar on May 22, 2022 | [–]

Sure, but that's a library AFAIR. I am talking about an actual CLI tool.

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