Jonathan Blow

Anyone know if @Jonathan_Blow still hates language servers?

I actually don't hate them, because, they are a good barometer of who actually understands computers. If someone likes language servers, you can stop talking to that person and go about your business.

I remember reading your rationale initially, but I have forgotten (I think it was a good couple years ago right?). Can you summarize super quickly?

What it really is, is a proposal for how all code sharing should work on modern computers. If we do that, everything will become insanely slow and a giant undebuggable disaster.

My experience with language servers is basically just IDE-kind of features in Vim — when you say code sharing, you mean in the sense of how different files relate to one another in this kind of context? (go-to-definition, etc)

I mean, what are "language servers"? They are a way to communicate with code that provides autocomplete information and whatever. Is there anything fundamentally different between that, and any other kind of library code you would use to do anything?

When you read the justifications people give for why LSP is a good idea, are these justifications restricted to LSP in some way, or do they apply to all code?