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Tree-sitter is a parser generator tool and an incremental parsing library\. It can build a concrete syntax tree for a source file and efficiently update the syntax tree as the source file is edited\. Tree-sitter aims to be: - **General** enough to parse any programming language - **Fast** enough to parse on every keystroke in a text editor - **Robust** enough to provide useful results even in the presence of syntax errors - **Dependency-free** so that the runtime library \(which is written i...