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I like everything about Observable but the editing experience. In 2018 no one wants to write code like writing txt files.

Is there any plan to adopt Language Server Protocol so at least users could get auto completions? But with the custom syntaxes to JS I guess Observable can't just use plain TypeScript Language Server.

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Hey there - have you tried hitting Tab while editing code? We've implemented dynamic code completion that works in a surprising number of cases where no other completion can work - for example, completing properties of API responses, based on the real values in the environment.

But, of course we have a long way to go, especially relative to the VSCode/TypeScript ecosystem.

Never know that existed! Maybe you can improve discoverability by doing that on typing a dot.

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