tree-sitter bindings notes

notes.md

note: afaict, "grammar files" appears to be a phrase used by at least one of the main developers to refer to the files related to bindings for various languages (e.g. c, go, java, kotlin, node, python, rust, swift)

• generate used to be the subcommand that created bindings files, in 0.24.0, this role was taken on by the init subcommand (2024-10-04):

  Move generation of grammar files to an init command

• the role of generating bindings files was transitioned to the init subcommand:

  • generate should not create .editorconfig (et al.), that should be part of an init command #3321 (2024-04-26)
  • generate --no-bindings still generates package.json #3528 (2024-08-16)
  • feat!: move generation of grammar files to an init command #3694 (2024-09-28)
  • tree-sitter.json came about during the transition
    • Move tree-sitter configuration to dedicated file #3637 (2024-09-15)
    • feat: move tree-sitter configuration to dedicated file #3700 (2024-10-01)

• misc

  • Update bindings using patches #3834 (2024-10-27)
  • With multiple grammars defined tree-sitter init only generates bindings for the first #4125 (2025-01-19)