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		briaoeuidhtns 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tree-sitter vs. Language Servers I think the big reason to put syntax highlighting in the language server is you have more info, ex you can highlight symbols imported from a different file in one color for integers and a different for functions

LoganDark 3 months ago [–]

You can enrich highlighting using information from the language server, can't you? I think JetBrains does this

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