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> [Utilize] the power of language servers to provide deep syntactical analysis of your code and projects. Having my code analyzed by others' servers just so I

> [Utilize] the power of language servers to provide deep syntactical analysis of your code and projects. Having my code analyzed by others' servers just so I can have better autocomplete does not sound like something I want.

damieng 9y ago
The servers run entirely locally on your machine.
itwy 9y ago
They mean the local language server/interpreter, I think.
giancarlostoro 9y ago
They run on your own machine, and it's used by many other editors. The spec is by Microsoft and supported by Emacs and other editors, it's not perfected yet, but it works pretty well.
coldtea 9y ago
Language servers are local services that analyze the code outside of your editor (and can be used by several editors etc). It's a protocol that got big the last 2 years or so. It doesn't refer to servers in some Cloud.
- oneeyedpigeon 9y ago
  So... daemons?
  - Matthias247 9y ago
    yes. They are deamons which are spawned by the editor and which are running locally on the machine. The daemons are reapsonsible for analyzing code in the edited project and to provide IDE-like features (auto-completion, refactorings, etc.) around it. The editor talks to the daemon (language-service) through an RPC protocol (language server protocol).
  - alloyed 9y ago
    yes and no? Unlike a traditional daemon, this isn't a system service that always runs in the background. The IDE (in this case atom) spins up the process and shuts it down when necessary, and then both sides communicate to each other using an implementation-defined IPC mechanism. So it's a server more in the sense that the IDE requests info as a client, and then the server provides it (pull, not push).
    - alphaalpha101 9y ago
      So it's not a daemon or a server. It's just a process. Running some code in a separate process isn't a 'server' it's just how all programmes operate.
      - Rapzid 9y ago
        In computing, a server is a computer program or a device that provides functionality for other programs or devices, called "clients".
        alphaalpha101 9y ago
        across a network in modern parlance
      - coldtea 9y ago
        You seem confused as to what a server is. If a program runs in a separate process and provides data/processing to other connected programs through some standard protocols, they are a server.
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damieng 9y ago

The servers run entirely locally on your machine.

itwy 9y ago

They mean the local language server/interpreter, I think.

giancarlostoro 9y ago

They run on your own machine, and it's used by many other editors. The spec is by Microsoft and supported by Emacs and other editors, it's not perfected yet, but it works pretty well.

coldtea 9y ago

Language servers are local services that analyze the code outside of your editor (and can be used by several editors etc). It's a protocol that got big the last 2 years or so. It doesn't refer to servers in some Cloud.

oneeyedpigeon 9y ago
So... daemons?
- Matthias247 9y ago
  yes. They are deamons which are spawned by the editor and which are running locally on the machine. The daemons are reapsonsible for analyzing code in the edited project and to provide IDE-like features (auto-completion, refactorings, etc.) around it. The editor talks to the daemon (language-service) through an RPC protocol (language server protocol).
- alloyed 9y ago
  yes and no? Unlike a traditional daemon, this isn't a system service that always runs in the background. The IDE (in this case atom) spins up the process and shuts it down when necessary, and then both sides communicate to each other using an implementation-defined IPC mechanism. So it's a server more in the sense that the IDE requests info as a client, and then the server provides it (pull, not push).
  - alphaalpha101 9y ago
    So it's not a daemon or a server. It's just a process. Running some code in a separate process isn't a 'server' it's just how all programmes operate.
    - Rapzid 9y ago
      In computing, a server is a computer program or a device that provides functionality for other programs or devices, called "clients".
      - alphaalpha101 9y ago
        across a network in modern parlance
    - coldtea 9y ago
      You seem confused as to what a server is. If a program runs in a separate process and provides data/processing to other connected programs through some standard protocols, they are a server.

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