Re:LSP: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
by thayne on Saturday September 07, 2024 @01:20PM
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The reason to use LSP is that there are already many existing implementations of it.
Starting over with a new protocol, and replacing implementations for all the existing editors and languages would be a tremendous amount of work for relatively little benefit.
And either forking lsp, or creating a new protocol would cause fragmentation.
Also, VSCode is popular enough that even if the other editors forked LSP and made significant improvements, if VSCode wasn't on board, it would be a tough sell to get many languages and existing LSP implementations to adopt it.
Starting over with a new protocol, and replacing implementations for all the existing editors and languages would be a tremendous amount of work for relatively little benefit.
And either forking lsp, or creating a new protocol would cause fragmentation.
Also, VSCode is popular enough that even if the other editors forked LSP and made significant improvements, if VSCode wasn't on board, it would be a tough sell to get many languages and existing LSP implementations to adopt it.