> Treesitter added different syntax colors, but the result wasn't necessarily better than vanilla vim. More like an overly decorated christmas tree.
The problem here is that people use treesitter to add more colours to distinguish more types of tokens. For me this is too much and the colours lose their meaning.
I recently switched to a colour scheme that only changes the colours for strings, numbers and comments. Treesitter allowed be to add very targeted minimal highlighting. For example, I know highlight the first line of a function definition. This makes it very easy to see function scopes.
We don't really need more highlighting, but meaningful highlighting. With treesitter you can do both.
The problem here is that people use treesitter to add more colours to distinguish more types of tokens. For me this is too much and the colours lose their meaning. I recently switched to a colour scheme that only changes the colours for strings, numbers and comments. Treesitter allowed be to add very targeted minimal highlighting. For example, I know highlight the first line of a function definition. This makes it very easy to see function scopes.
We don't really need more highlighting, but meaningful highlighting. With treesitter you can do both.