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Re:An elegy for GNU and RMS by varajelle on Sunday October 02, 2022 @02:43AM (#33053525)
> Given the success of LSP in the recent years, it’s super evident that RMS was wrong on this matter.

But the LSP doesn't expose the AST. It just expose what the editor needs. That looks like the kind of interface RMS was asking for.

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Re:An elegy for GNU and RMS by mgraczyk on Sunday October 02, 2022 @03:57AM (#33053898)
Sometimes the editor needs the AST, and LSP is general enough that language implementations can expose it. For example

https://clangd.llvm.org/extensions#ast

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Re:An elegy for GNU and RMS by varajelle on Sunday October 02, 2022 @04:30AM (#33054078)
Sure, but the "success of LSP in the recent years" was not because of that extension.
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