Perl grammar is old and unreliable

[jonassmedegaard]

Summary

The default configuration points to using a tree-sitter grammar for Perl which in my experience crashes frequently, and is discouraged by related programmers.

Please consider switching to https://github.com/tree-sitter-perl/tree-sitter-perl as recommended in about comment. It has recent(!) commits from core Perl developers (oalders, leonerd).

Reproduction Steps

I have (briefly) tested that the proposed grammar works succesfully - after patching Helix to support it (see #7198 #7202).

Helix log

No response

Platform

Linux

Terminal Emulator

alacritty 0.11.0

Helix Version

helix 23.05

[jonassmedegaard]

As also mentioned at #7200, I have in fact not verified if the alternative tree-sitter parser actually works, yet...

[jonassmedegaard]

Update: I can confirm that the concretely proposed alternative tree-parser grammar does work: Removing the compiled file makes Helix not apply syntax highlighting to Perl code, which then reappears when reinstating the compiled file.