tree-sitter-julia

A tree-sitter parser for Julia.

References

• The Julia Parser
• Julia ASTs documentation
• JuliaSyntax.jl

Guidelines for writing queries

• No highlighting is better than ambiguous highlighting. If syntax highlighting is excessive or wrong, it loses its value.

• Only public names defined in Core should be highlighted as builtin. Julia Base is huge, and highlighting everything in it has diminishing returns.

• Captures mostly follow Neovim's naming conventions, since they're well documented and widely used. Adapting the captures to work with other editors usually requires a few small changes.