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Yeah the LSP ecosystem is so much nicer than the machinations hacked into text editors over the last 20 years. When you get down to it a modern editor is just
by qbasic_forever 5y ago
Yeah the LSP ecosystem is so much nicer than the machinations hacked into text editors over the last 20 years. When you get down to it a modern editor is just a process manager for language servers, a global event bus/RPC layer across them all, and a UI layer. Instead of reinventing bespoke versions of those things, just solidify it using standard protocols like JSON RPC, HTML for UI, etc.
- Hedepig 5y agoI thought LSP was available for emacs?
- bananamerica 5y agoIt is.
- _hl_ 5y agoAbsolutely. Emacs is a great UX layer, only lacking a modern UI rendering layer. Would be nice to have emacs with a DOM-based rendering engine.
- NoGravitas 5y agoI'm not sure I love that idea, but I'm guessing that's the direction Nyxt is heading in.
- novocantico 5y agoI mean I wholeheartedly agree but that nick
- anthk 5y ago>. Instead of reinventing bespoke versions of those things, just solidify it using standard protocols like JSON RPC, HTML for UI, etc. That's ironic.
- wiz21c 5y agoironic ? it depends on the age of the author :-)