I mean, this is theoretically true, if an editor provided a language-agnostic protocol for talking to potential semantic plugins. The article says > Rather, a

I mean, this is theoretically true, if an editor provided a language-agnostic protocol for talking to potential semantic plugins. The article says > Rather, a language should implement a server which speaks some protocol, an editor needs to implement language agnostic APIs for providing completions and such, and, if both the language and the editor are not esoteric, someone who is interested in both would just write a bit of glue code to bind the two together I mean, yes, ideally that is what should have happened, but the first editor to actually do that was VSCode, and the protocol it chose is called LSP, so that's where we are.