> Removing the need for the trivia manipulation would probably help quite a bit with that too; if you're used to looking at code using SwiftSyntax I assume your eyes just automatically skip all of the withoutTrivia() etc. calls, but for someone new to it that's a lot of extra incidental code to read on the way to understanding what's actually happening. Definitely. I probably spent a quarter of my time on this messing with trivia . It's something we can improve on via the swift-syntax APIs over time.