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Re:How I'm still not using GUIs in 2019: A guide to the term... by TeMPOraL on Thursday February 28, 2019 @11:53AM (#19272740)
I hope that language servers fully take off. This way, Vim and Emacs can gain semantic autocomplete & navigation. To be clear: it's not that they can't have that in principle, it's just that engines for semantic operations are difficult and expensive to write, so they were made primarily by IDE companies - and until recently, it meant they were tied to those IDEs.

With that, the only remaining thing in which IDEs are a better choice than vim or Emacs is debugging. I wish for decent and fully featured debugging TUIs.

Re:How I'm still not using GUIs in 2019: A guide to the term... by NateEag on Thursday February 28, 2019 @09:22PM (#19277454)
I've never been a big debugger user, but I thought if you like LSP, you might be interested in Microsoft's analogous debugger protocol:

https://code.visualstudio.com/api/extension-guides/debugger-...

I imagine Emacs, vim, and friends could implement their own frontends for this, much as has been happening with LSP.

Re:How I'm still not using GUIs in 2019: A guide to the term... by TeMPOraL on Friday March 01, 2019 @01:24AM (#19278393)
Wow, thanks!

And it turns out, Emacs and vim do implement their own frontends for this - [0], [1]. My wish just literally came true!

[0] - https://github.com/emacs-lsp/dap-mode

[1] - https://github.com/puremourning/vimspector

Re:How I'm still not using GUIs in 2019: A guide to the term... by NateEag on Friday March 01, 2019 @11:07PM (#19287501)
Awesome - glad to be of assistance!