> No language servers.
Why is that a good thing?
Why is that a good thing?
- LSP are a good idea but a terrible execution, YAGNI, etc.
- LSP are god send, burn my cpus I don't care
I'm being a little sarcastic but I think that's the gist of it. I'm neither pro or against LSPs. I use them when available.
Though honestly I think it's the best we have right now and it's worth the cost. Partially because I don't like IDEs and LSP doesn't need to be integrated and tailored to one specific environment.
Agree generally.. But I gotta admit, MS's LSP protocol has been successfully implemented by many non-MS IDEs. I'm doubtful this would be the case had they defined a c api instead.
Also yeah, I use LSPs and I myself don't have a strong grasp of the use of dynamically linked libraries. I don't mean it as a put-down of web programmers (I am one). There is value in this microservice type approach, though it does feel very "webby".
0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_Server_Protocol#Techn...
Modern hardware is powerful enough to go back to classical UNIX IPC for plugins, while achieving security and host stability in the process.
Plus, shared memory is still a possibility for performance, with the same caveats as loading in-process foreign code.
It is also how Plan 9 works, everyone loves Plan 9.