Started as just an implementation of parsing the multiline blocks in the Nelua language (which require the C plugin features of tree-sitter, scanner.c). Eventually this will be a complete tree-sitter implementation of Nelua with a full test suite.
Currently a work in progress, everything is quite messy and will remain that way until the cleanup phase.
This repo will be broken most days until I get through a few more phases. worklog will keep updates of the daily work.
COMPLETE
Implement comment multiline blocks, string multiline blocks, and pre-processor multiline blocks. Both comment and pre-processor should be tokenized in a way that allows for injection of other languages. This means we need to maintain state so that the beginning and ending tokens are separated from the body (first implementation was stateless).
Incomplete
Implement the rest of the grammar.js, following the Nelua PEG grammar, while attempting to adjust to the needs of an LR parser. I want to create an AST suited to syntax highlighting rather than copying what makes sense for Nelua.
Basic testing will be done during this phase by running tree-sitter parse on example files. AST is not final.
Tracking features as they are completed in: features.md
Incomplete
Added 9-9-2024
Language specimens should be gathered and assigned syntax highlighting scopes. These specimens will be used to create test files, and as guidance for the cleanup phase. Specimens will be a combination of tests from the nelua AST tests syntaxdefs_spec.lua, the documentation, and existing nelua code. At the end of this phase we should have a method for managing specimens and generating test files.
Incomplete
At this point the major features will be implemented, and I'll start cleaning up the AST, adding fields where they make sense, and in general making sure everything is well organized for its primary purpose.
Incomplete
At this point I'll start comparing the project to other well regarded tree-sitter projects and attempt to get it into a state where I can turn it over to the tree-sitter organization, whatever that entails.