Show HN: I ported Tree-sitter to Go

Post by srcreigh » Wed, Feb 25, 2026, 8:02 PM UTC

dorianmariecom wrote: post #19

odvcencio wrote: post #16

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gah,. sincere apologies for formatting of this post. i ahve been on HN for basically 10 years now without ever having made a post (:

use four spaces " " in front of a line for formatting like " this"

Post by conartist6 » Wed, Feb 25, 2026, 8:03 PM UTC

Post by zero_shift » Wed, Feb 25, 2026, 8:08 PM UTC

odvcencio wrote: post #24

zero_shift wrote: post #20

Interesting. I have a similar usecase but intended to use CGo tree-sitter with Zig Are these pretty up-to-date grammars? I'm awfully tempted to switch to your project How large are your binaries getting? I was concerned about the size of some of the grammars

206 binary blobs = 15MB, so not crazy but i built for this use case where you can declare the registry of languages you want to load and not have to own all the grammar binaries by default

Post by odvcencio » Wed, Feb 25, 2026, 8:10 PM UTC

zero_shift wrote: post #25

odvcencio wrote: post #24

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206 binary blobs = 15MB, so not crazy but i built for this use case where you can declare the registry of languages you want to load and not have to own all the grammar binaries by default

If all the languages together add up to 15MB that is a game changer for me. It means the CLI I am working on can ship support for many languages whilst still being a smallish (sub 50mb) download I shall definitely check it out!

Post by odvcencio » Wed, Feb 25, 2026, 8:20 PM UTC

acedTrex wrote: post #28

Claude attempted a treesitter to go port Better title