it is THESIS THURSDAY.

we did this last spring, we will resume it again now, cuz why not. it is pretty simple, you post a long and/or short thesis on something that is *not* a financial asset (regardless of liquidity, so you also can't like, long a startup for example). so it should be like, a trend or concept or something. ideally you add some reasoning to your thesis and it is sufficiently contrarian that there is still "upside". 

post it in /six

Long LSP and treesitter: they are *still* underrated in how impactful they are to the present and future of editor tooling. We're just starting to scratch the surface on what we can build with them. Here's things we haven't even done yet:

- We can build jq that works with any language works with treesitter, not just JSON.
- We can make a tool that generates control flow diagrams for any language.
- LLMs can use TS grammars to tightly constrain valid output, vastly reducing training costs and possibly model sizes.
- We can make plugins that augments tooling for any language that works with any editor (not just programming!), a lot of AI-assistants already use hooks like this.
- Agents can interface with language structures at a higher level (AST) rather than sending text diffs back and forth.

These two technologies began a golden age of editor tooling, and we're just getting started.

There's no reason why things like Language Server Protocol and tree-sitter couldn't have been done 30+ years ago, and yet here we are. What a massive quality of life improvement for all programmers.

Andrey 🦃 Petrov

Long LSP and treesitter: they are *still* underrated in how impactful they are to the present and future of editor tooling. We're just starting to scratch the surface on what we can build with them. Here's things we haven't even done yet:

- We can build jq that works with any language works with treesitter, not just JSON.
- We can make a tool that generates control flow diagrams for any language.
- LLMs can use TS grammars to tightly constrain valid output, vastly reducing training costs and possibly model sizes.
- We can make plugins that augments tooling for any language that works with any editor (not just programming!), a lot of AI-assistants already use hooks like this.
- Agents can interface with language structures at a higher level (AST) rather than sending text diffs back and forth.

These two technologies began a golden age of editor tooling, and we're just getting started.
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writing up a new grammar for a new language is a pain in the bum in treesitter but you are defo right that treesitter has made things so much easier. You can write a security tool, static analyzer using just treesitter