Language Engineering

Refactoring is part of the lifecycle of a project. When dealing with large and complex codebases this might even be the greater part of your work. Can AI help at this step? The short answer is: “eh, maybe”. For the longer answer, you can keep reading this article. We combine our knowledge about language engineering […]

Do you want to know more about an incremental parsing library used at GitHub and that was born out of a failed software? Then, keep reading because we are going to talk about Tree-sitter. Tree-sitter is an incremental parsing library, which means that it is designed to efficiently update the tree, without throwing away the […]

There is one thing that studying English and French (and failing at German) taught me about coding — especially when dealing with unfamiliar codebases. I’ve learned through firsthand experience that you can’t truly learn a language by relying on books or your high school English teacher. Maybe you’ve gone abroad and enthusiastically wished someone good […]

Introduction Kolasu is an open-source Kotlin library that simplifies the development of language engineering tools, we will talk about contributing semantic highlighting capabilities to Kolasu Language Servers. It has a companion repository that adds support for creating language servers following the Language Server Protocol. One of the benefits of using the Language Server Protocol is […]