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did the folks behind tree-sitter ever get some sort of award? with hindsight, it was industry-changing stuff — completely transformed the landscape of syntax highlighting.

13/2/25, 12:19 am6 reposts114 likes

maxbrunsfeld.bsky.social

@maxbrunsfeld.bsky.social

13 Feb 2025

This message is Reward enough, Amos!

Martin Vidner

@mvidner.bsky.social

13 Feb 2025

thanks, TIL, docs: tree-sitter.github.io/tree-sitter/ code: github.com/tree-sitter/...

github.comGitHub - tree-sitter/tree-sitter: An incremental parsing system for programming toolsAn incremental parsing system for programming tools - tree-sitter/tree-sitter

Jms Dnns

@jmsdnns.bsky.social

13 Feb 2025

They got funded to build Zed. I think that counts.

Amos Wenger

@fasterthanli.me

13 Feb 2025

maybe I should organize awards.

Laaman

@laaman.bsky.social

13 Feb 2025

Become the Geoff Keighley of the dev industry

Nate Butler

@nate.rip

13 Feb 2025

@maxbrunsfeld.bsky.social 🫂

Michael Bacarella

@michael.bacarella.com

13 Feb 2025

isn't Cursor's secret sauce that it uses tree-sitter to have LLMs operate on ASTs rather than text?