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The point is that you don’t need common protocol. A bunch of language-specific protocols would have worked! It’s interesting to ask why that didn’t happen.
by matklad 4y ago
The point is that you don’t need common protocol. A bunch of language-specific protocols would have worked! It’s interesting to ask why that didn’t happen.
- codeflo 4y agoBut in fact that did happen. Several languages started to implement “editor neutral” code analysis and refactoring. That worked, for the most popular editor/language combinations, but not as a general solution because of N*M.
- bzxcvbn 4y agoIs it really interesting? Every editor would have had to support a bunch of different protocols, instead of just one. That's back to square one.
- nerdponx 4y agoWe can and do have both. LSP is a lowest-common-denominator protocol. Several languages have more-powerful language-specific protocols that can be wrapped with LSP, at the cost of some advanced features.