Comment by tyingq
4 years ago
Someone is working on tree-sitter for Perl too: https://github.com/ganezdragon/tree-sitter-perl
Which is supposed to be difficult, if not impossible: https://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=663393
I suppose, though, if it's for diffs and syntax highlighting, flaws matter less.
Yeah I honestly wouldn't mind it even if it's a text-based heuristic; anything that's an improvement over line-by-line diff is a big win. I'm just wondering whether/how it's actually doing what it's actually advertised as doing, since it seems so much more difficult.