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Re:Emacs Bedrock–A minimal Emacs starter kit by billfruit on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @01:51PM (#37408538)
Yes it can be set up, but my point was precisely that it(LSP servers for popular languages) is not baked into Emacs, instead making them complicated external dependencies necessary to be set up to get a basic IDE functionality of code completion working.

Code completion works out of the box for example in IntelliJ for example without needing to download and install further packages.

The tree sitter approach does sound something along in that direction, that should bode well if it works out.

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Re:Emacs Bedrock–A minimal Emacs starter kit by schmooser on Friday September 08, 2023 @03:07PM (#37437972)
Did you ask why does JetBrains have so many IDEs, each for different language? PyCharm, WebStorm, RubyMine, CLion, Idea.

Emacs has LSP client that works will all LSP servers. It's your responsibility to bring an LSP server or implement your own, not Emacs'.

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