---
title: "tree-sitter/tree-sitter: An incremental parsing system for programming tools"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/tree-sitter-tree-sitter-an-incremental-parsing-system-for-programming-tools-diolyoqmy
source_url: https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter
type: article
source: "Pointer"
published: 2024-02-02T21:13:39.358Z
updated: 2024-05-09T08:39:06.345Z
tags: ["github"]
reading_time: 1
upvotes: 29
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# tree-sitter/tree-sitter: An incremental parsing system for programming tools

**[Pointer](https://daily.dev/sources/pointer)** · 1 min read · 29 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Tree-sitter is an incremental parsing system that can build and update syntax trees for source files. It is designed to be general, fast, robust, and dependency-free.

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