[JdeBP]

I suspect that one of these days someone will just bite the bullet and write an abstract syntax tree editor, and eliminate at a stroke all of the "first, we turn the text into an abstract syntax tree" steps that occur in everything from code colourization through folding to code suggestions. (-:

[tomtom1337]

That is what tree-sitter is, I think? https://tree-sitter.github.io/tree-sitter/