tree-sitter-toolang

Tree-sitter grammar for Toolang.

This repository publishes:

• the npm grammar package tree-sitter-toolang
• the Python extension package tree-sitter-toolang
• the Rust crate tree-sitter-toolang

Install

Python

Building from this branch requires Python 3.11 or newer. The published 0.4.0a1 release still supports Python 3.10.

python -m pip install tree-sitter-toolang tree-sitter

import tree_sitter_toolang
from tree_sitter import Language, Parser

language = Language(tree_sitter_toolang.language())
parser = Parser(language)
tree = parser.parse(b"with skill a/b\n")

The Python package also exposes packaged query strings: HIGHLIGHTS_QUERY, INJECTIONS_QUERY, INDENTS_QUERY, OUTLINE_QUERY, and TAGS_QUERY.

Tree-sitter CLI

Install tree-sitter-toolang or clone this repository, then make sure the directory that contains tree-sitter-toolang is listed in your Tree-sitter parser-directories.

tree-sitter init-config
tree-sitter dump-languages
tree-sitter parse path/to/file.too
tree-sitter highlight path/to/file.too
tree-sitter tags path/to/file.too

Installing the npm package alone does not make tree-sitter dump-languages discover Toolang automatically. The package must still live under one of the configured parser-directories, or the grammar path must be provided explicitly.

Rust

[dependencies]
tree-sitter = "0.25"
tree-sitter-toolang = "0.4.0-alpha.2"

let language = tree_sitter::Language::new(tree_sitter_toolang::LANGUAGE);

Grammar

GRAMMAR.md documents the public Toolang syntax and CST contract. grammar.js is the parser source of truth; generated artifacts live under src/.

Version 0.4.0-alpha.2 adds named and inline spawn targets, including typed inline targets and optional let bindings. See the spawn syntax notes. Execution and handle semantics require matching Toolang runtime support.

Version 0.4.0-alpha.1 uses run in place of scatter/gather, renames storm/settle to generate/reduce, and requires using only for named collection targets. See the migration notes. These forms require a matching Toolang runtime release.

Install this prerelease explicitly with python -m pip install tree-sitter-toolang==0.4.0a2 or npm install tree-sitter-toolang@0.4.0-alpha.2.

Version 0.3.4 adds named and inline exec statements in flows and repeats. See the Flow reference for syntax and CST fields.

Version 0.3.3 shares configuration directives between agics and flows, removes the count from scatter, adds optional from: initializers to settle, and adds windowing N to repeat. See the 0.3.3 migration notes.

Documentation comments use #@ for modules and ## for items, including ## @param NAME DESCRIPTION. The legacy ##! module marker remains accepted. See comments and documentation for syntax, CST fields, and the 0.3.2 node-name migration.

Development

Edit:

• GRAMMAR.md
• grammar.js
• queries/*.scm
• test/corpus/*.txt
• tests/fixtures/*.too
• tests/*.py

Regenerate and test:

npm ci
python -m venv .venv
.venv/bin/python -m pip install -e '.[tests]'

npm run check
.venv/bin/python -m pytest tests
.venv/bin/python -m unittest discover -s scripts -p 'test_*.py'
cargo test

Publishing

Trusted publishers are configured in GitHub Actions with release.yml.

Python wheels use the cp311-abi3 tag for compatibility with Python 3.11 and later. Both wheel and release workflows build Linux x86_64 and ARM64 wheels on separate native runners, covering manylinux and musllinux. macOS universal2 and Windows AMD64 builds are also retained. Every wheel build runs the full Python test suite.

To publish the Rust crate automatically, add the repository secret CRATES_IO_TOKEN.

Verify the npm package locally:

npm publish --dry-run

Verify the Python distributions locally:

python -m pip install --upgrade pip build twine
python -m build
python -m twine check dist/*

Verify the Rust crate:

cargo publish --dry-run

Release checklist:

1. Bump the version in package.json, package-lock.json, pyproject.toml, Cargo.toml, Cargo.lock, and tree-sitter.json.
2. Confirm CI is green.
3. Merge the version bump PR into main.
4. Create and push a matching tag such as v0.4.0-alpha.1.
5. GitHub Actions publishes npm and PyPI automatically.
6. GitHub Actions also publishes the Rust crate when CRATES_IO_TOKEN is set.

The release workflow skips npm, PyPI, or crates.io if that version already exists on the registry. The git tag must match the package version.

Prereleases use X.Y.Z-alpha.N, X.Y.Z-beta.N, or X.Y.Z-rc.N consistently in source metadata and tags. Python packaging normalizes these to X.Y.ZaN, X.Y.ZbN, or X.Y.ZrcN; for example, 0.4.0-alpha.1 is published on PyPI as 0.4.0a1. npm prereleases use the next dist-tag; stable releases use latest.