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tree-sitter

brew install tree-sitter v0.26.9 MIT

Incremental parsing library that builds syntax trees for code in C with language bindings.

Why you might care

Tree-sitter powers efficient code analysis, highlighting, and navigation in editors like Neovim and Helix. It parses incrementally—only re-parsing changed sections—making it ideal for real-time linting, formatting, and LSP tooling. Faster and more robust than traditional regex-based approaches.

Categories

parser library

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Links

Caveats

This formula now installs only the `tree-sitter` library (`libtree-sitter`).
To install the CLI tool:
  brew install tree-sitter-cli

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