https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-coden...
I don't whether anyone is working on this for Netbeans, though.
The big piece that is missing is a language server registry so that any tool can discover, install and register locally a language service. That will come next.
According to the link:
> Language server registry: Language servers are published as part of a global registry, built by Codenvy as an Eclipse project and hosted by the Eclipse Foundation, to make language servers discoverable for any tool to consume.
Sounds pretty cool. It's certainly a sad state of affairs when we look at existing projects like http://editorconfig.org and see that it only really covers indentation; we programmers should be those most able to configure and improve our own tools!
I really think there's a lot of low-hanging fruit for improving the programming workflow, and I think it begins by decoupling basic functionality like this from the monolithic IDEs they've traditionally inhabited.
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