How AST-grep Rewrote Tree-sitter in Rust and Made It 30% Faster
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Author: herrington_d
Date: 7/26/2026
Article Summary:
A rewritten version of Tree-sitter's C core in Rust, resulting in a 30% faster parser and a 22% faster ast-grep application, with improved memory usage and readability.