Would it make sense to let tree-sitter ask the language server for the ast?
No, it wouldn't.
Because then tree-sitter would actually be able to setup a compilation environment and know how to compile this one specific file. But maybe this one specific file is a C header file? Or compilation ois complicated because it xsn only happen in OpenEmbedded or a Docker container?
Also: the AST of GCC is different to the AST of clang is different to the one of Rust which is different to the one of Nim etc etc etc.
AST's aren't normed, they are an implementation detail of the compiler. Would a compiler change its AST, things would stop working.
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