On: Tree-sitter: an incremental parsing system for pro...

[efritz]

> On the face of it, it seems to me like tree-sitter could server as a perfectly fine building block for generating LSIF or whatever from a code file.

It does seem this way. Another reply [1] this post makes the same point with a nice proof-of-concept as well.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26230900