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Re:Introducing Rust Language Server by ntonozzi on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @09:21PM (#12740218)
The syntax highlighting is done in process using a declarative format, eg: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/blob/master/extensions/g....
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Re:Introducing Rust Language Server by wbond on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @09:34PM (#12740278)
I was referring to the paragraph about Swift and Source kit. To my knowledge, the majority of editors do not do syntax highlighting outside of the main editor process.
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Re:Introducing Rust Language Server by ntonozzi on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @09:39PM (#12740313)
Oh I see. Yes that does seem prohibitively slow.
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