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blt ◴[] No.43710058[source]
Sorry for being a grumpy old man, but I don't have npm on my machine and I never will. It's a bit frustrating to see more and more CLI tools depending on it.
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John23832 ◴[] No.43710092[source]
I asked the same question for Anthropic's version of this. Why is all of this in JS?
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1. photonthug ◴[] No.43710167[source]
Tree-sitter related bits probably
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2. emporas ◴[] No.43710563[source]
tree-sitter is a C library though. Only grammars for each particular lang are defined in javascript.