Does ecode use tree sitter, rope science, and crdt?

[arjpar]

Some of those features are found in new modern editors like Xi, Lapce, Helix, etc.

[SpartanJ]

Hi!
ecode currently does not use tree-sitters, I'll probably leverage the feature to the LSP. LSPs have a feature called semantic tokens (or semantic highlighting) that usually the underlying implementation is a tree-sitter. I'm exploring the possibilities but I'm still not completely sure what's going to be the adequate solution for ecode. tree-sitters are cool but they are not always necessary or the best solution for the problem IMO. ecode currently uses a simpler approach and is more similar to what vscode's uses.
CRDTs are for concurrent document editing. ecode does not support that feature at the moment.

[arjpar]

Thanks for the quick response! What about rope science? I take it ecode doesn't?

[SpartanJ]

rope science would be could to implement at some point but we are not using it at the moment. These cool technologies are all really great but they don't guarantee a great editor, many great editors don't use any of those three. If you ask me I think that for coding the most interesting tech are the tree-sitters, and I'll probably implement them at some point (it shouldn't be that hard), but I'm still iterating in improving many features and sadly I can't advance at the pace I would like because I'm currently the only developer. It would be great if some devs start to collaborate, but I understand that the code base might be challenging since it's huge and in a totally custom engine. I don't lose hope though.

[arjpar]

Thanks for the detailed responses!