I think treesitter is getting us closer to this goal. Many programming modes in emacs now support treesitter, allowing syntax-aware movement operations, code folding, etc. Even where modes haven’t been set up, you can call “treesit-explore” I think for any language for which you have a grammar available and get an outline of the nodes.
Hopefully we’ll continue to see adoption in this space, as it makes it much easier to add syntax highlighting and other basic support for new languages, and it makes it so that any new functionality that operates via treesitter should work with minimal modification for any language.
Hopefully we’ll continue to see adoption in this space, as it makes it much easier to add syntax highlighting and other basic support for new languages, and it makes it so that any new functionality that operates via treesitter should work with minimal modification for any language.