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And no other editor can implement IDEA’s feature set except from scratch. What a mess.

• kuschku 9y ago
  Or they can start off with reusing IDEA’s stuff, and building an LSP 2.0 based on it.
  • Analemma_ 9y ago
    LSP is already on version 3.7, and publishing an update every few months: https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/specification#version_3_7_0 https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/specifi... Is your complaint that they're not iterating fast enough? Because this is something I'd prefer they take their time and get it right, especially once we get past the low-hanging fruit and into complex things like debugging.
    • kuschku 9y ago
      My complaint is that the entire concept on which LSPs are based today — each LSP reimplements all functionality itself, the editor is only a dumb textview — is wrong. Language servers should expose an AST, not some actions. Language Servers shouldn't even know where the cursor is — or how many there are. With a proper LSP, you can also write a linter just by using the protocol, you can call the same action on a thousand places at the same time, and the refactoring functionality is implemented only once, and reused everywhere. The entire design of LSP is flawed.