so @Jonathan_Blow considers the language server protocol to be the devil and that lang servers are meant to run locally on every devs' machine to replace libraries to do IDE stuff... maybe he should take a look at @gitpod to get another perspective?https://youtu.be/pW-SOdj4Kkk?t=2546 …
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Replying to @RobertWalter83 @meysholdt and
Such an uninformed take. Doesn’t consider at all that editors and compilers are written in different languages
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Replying to @felixfbecker @RobertWalter83 and
The fact that many people think that this objection even makes sense, is an example of the generational knowledge loss that I discuss in the lecture.
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Replying to @Jonathan_Blow @RobertWalter83 and
I’m really curious how you would create libraries in any language that can be used by editors in every language. If I’m missing generational knowledge here, please enlighten me!
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Replying to @felixfbecker @Jonathan_Blow and
Sounds like a misunderstanding to me. If you do sth like 'go to def' in an editor+plugin env, this is usually realized by a simple method call. Having a server in the picture makes it inherently more complex architecturally. I thought that was Jon's point and I'd agree. 1/2
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Replying to @RobertWalter83 @felixfbecker and
‚Go to definition‘ is not just a simple method call but requires parsing and linking the language. That’s quite complex stuff and since compilers do all this already it makes sense to make them a bit smarter and let them serve such editing services as well.
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Replying to @svenefftinge @RobertWalter83 and
But compilers are often not implemented in the same language or runtime as editors. LSP is a generic editing plug-in API based on JSON-RPC so you don‘t reimplement 80% of a compiler again for every editor.
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Gosh I didn’t realize that the idea of using different programming languages was invented in 2016. Good thing they haven’t been doing that since the 1960s, who knows what would have happened?!!?
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