Reflections on IDEA vs VS Code

Re:Reflections on IDEA vs VS Code by runarberg on Saturday March 06, 2021 @12:40PM (#26369046)

Interestingly, as an emacs user, I am really rooting for the success of VSCode. The existence of the Language Server Protocol means that I have a horse in this race. Emacs users that use the same language server as VSCode users directly benefit from this relationship. So even though VSCode is competing with Emacs for market share, it is very much collaborating with Emacs (and other text editors that use LSP) in making language features comprehensive for everybody.

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Re:Reflections on IDEA vs VS Code by owl57 on Saturday March 06, 2021 @11:52PM (#26373250)

It's more complicated. Microsoft waits until everybody adopts LSP for, say, Python, and then slowly moves to a proprietary language server, explicitly forbidding its use outside VSCode:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25719338

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Re:Reflections on IDEA vs VS Code by reidrac on Saturday March 06, 2021 @02:28PM (#26369819)

I feel the same. I couldn't do Scala with vim if it wasn't for LSP and Metals.

(and I'm aware that I still have less features than if I was using a full featured IDE, but I'm still very productive and also happy)

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Re:Reflections on IDEA vs VS Code by loosetypes on Saturday March 06, 2021 @02:33PM (#26369856)

Any resources you could recommend for getting started re LSP with emacs?

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Re:Reflections on IDEA vs VS Code by runarberg on Saturday March 06, 2021 @02:49PM (#26369988)

I personally started with lsp-mode[1] and just went from there.

1: https://emacs-lsp.github.io/lsp-mode/

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