It would be an understatement to say that I am mildly interested in syntax highlighting. While I have yet to write a full-fledged parser myself, my blog

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A developer attempts to integrate Arborium, a tree-sitter-based syntax highlighting tool, into their blog but encounters multiple bugs and undocumented behavior. After discovering the codebase shows signs of heavy AI generation and learning about related community drama involving the creator, they abandon Arborium in favor of Lezer. The author criticizes AI-generated code quality, lack of documentation, and the brittleness of the implementation, even after bug fixes were supposedly applied.

Arborium is AI slopware and should not be trusted