Jonathan Blow

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?

I honestly haven't read too many justifications (that's partly what spawned this question in my mind). I remember a time when there was ctags in Vim for this kind of stuff. The LSP paradigm, for me, feels easier. But I am curious if I am missing something?

Put another way, when I think 'bloated and slow', I typically think of an actual IDE.

Okay, so, how is it that an actual IDE gets 'bloated and slow'?