Re:Common Language Server Protocol
by Nullabillity on Monday June 27, 2016 @05:43PM
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Many languages already have something like this. For example, look into ENSIME, ghc-modi, and Racer. I guess the innovation here would be a common protocol for "any" language, but I somewhat doubt that this will have much adoption outside of the .NET/Typescript communities.
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Well it's nice to know there's at least some 3rd party support listed:
> the protocol has been adopted by Codenvy, who have added it to the next generation Eclipse IDE, Eclipse Che, as well as by Red Hat, who are working to publish a standalone language server for Java which can be consumed by any tool that utilizes the protocol.
> ... communities for programming languages like OmniSharp (C#), JSON, C++, xText, JavaFX, and R have made commitments to release language servers for their languages in the future.
Obviously we'll see if it actually happens, but at least other's are looking to support it.
There are a few implementations listed here: https://github.com/Microsoft/language-server-protocol/wiki/P...
It's early days but there are a number of organizations working on this. Today one such server was demoed at DevNation by RedHat - Java via the JDT.
I agree. `vim-go` is my favorite example; it actually is comprised of a number of daemons that service different facilities. The innovation would be a common interface specification any backend can play with any frontend.