Languages

In this page, you'll find the exhaustive list of language and backends available in GumTree. For each backend you will find a status, either:

• backend is working fine
• backend is not battle tested
• backend is known to have issues

C

• c-cocci: gum backend (default)
• c-srcml: srcML backend
• c-treesitter: tree-sitter backend

C++

• cpp-srcml: srcML backend (default)

C#

• cs-treesitter: tree-sitter backend (default)
• cs-srcml: srcML backend

CSS

• css-phcss: phcss (default)

Go

• go-treesitter: tree-sitter backend (default)

Java

• java-jdt: JDT backend (default)
• Spoon backend, see https://github.com/SpoonLabs/gumtree-spoon-ast-diff/ for how to use it.
• java-javaparser: JavaParser backend
• java-srcml: srcML backend
• java-treesitter: tree-sitter backend

JavaScript

• js-acorn: Acorn backend (default)
• js-treesitter: tree-sitter backend
• js-rhino: Rhino backend (the parser is stuck on old JS versions)

Ocaml

• ocaml-treesitter: tree-sitter backend (default)

PHP

• php-antlr: antlr backend
• php-treesitter: tree-sitter backend (default)

Python

• python-pythonparser: pythonparser backend (default)
• python-treesitter: tree-sitter backend

R

• r-antlr: fastr backend (default)
• r-treesitter: tree-sitter backend

Ruby

• ruby-jruby: JRuby backend (default)
• ruby-treesitter: tree-sitter backend

Rust

• rust-treesitter: tree-sitter backend (default)

TypeScript

• ts-treesitter: tree-sitter backend (default)

YAML

• yaml-snakeyaml: SnakeYAML backend (default)

XML

• xml-antlr: antlr backend (default)