Language Server Protocol

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Post by hota_mazi » Mon, Oct 03, 2016, 11:54 AM UTC

Re: Language Server Protocol

#2

Post by Edmond » Mon, Oct 03, 2016, 1:26 PM UTC

This is great! Abstracting away static code analysis is very helpful for people like us building browser based dev tools.

I am the developer of HiveMind (crudzilla.com), I have been dragging my feet about plunging into static code analysis so this type of solution is definitely intriguing.

Re: Language Server Protocol

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Post by Eridrus » Mon, Oct 03, 2016, 1:46 PM UTC

I'm on the fence about this, standardization let's people pool resources to provide common functionality, but it also ossifies the interface so that doing anything not supported by the interface becomes harder than before.

The first thing that pops into my head is that for languages with interprocedural type inference, I really want my IDE to show me what types it has inferred, but this is outside the spec and not even applicable to all languages.

Re: Language Server Protocol

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Post by hitr » Mon, Oct 03, 2016, 1:59 PM UTC

Eridrus wrote: post #3

I'm on the fence about this, standardization let's people pool resources to provide common functionality, but it also ossifies the interface so that doing anything not supported by the interface becomes harder than before. The first thing that pops into my head is that for languages with interprocedural type inference, I really want my IDE to show me what types it has inferred, but this is outside the spec and not ev…

With this,a new language can have an IDE integration done easily which can cover say 95% features. Some language specific feature may be obviously left out but getting a minimum viable integration to any supported IDE is a good thing.May be when this protocol evolves,it can give extension to the protocols to cover the other 5% features(or may be it is already there)

Re: Language Server Protocol

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Post by eatonphil » Mon, Oct 03, 2016, 2:28 PM UTC

Does anyone know what tool was used to create that diagram?

Re: Language Server Protocol

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Post by lttlrck » Mon, Oct 03, 2016, 2:35 PM UTC

eatonphil wrote: post #5

Does anyone know what tool was used to create that diagram?

The blues look like a PowerPoint theme. You might like http://blockdiag.com/en/seqdiag/index.html

Re: Language Server Protocol

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Post by danlindley » Mon, Oct 03, 2016, 2:37 PM UTC

eatonphil wrote: post #5

Does anyone know what tool was used to create that diagram?

There are many ways to go about, but it could be easily achieved with any diagramming or graphics application. For example, LibreOffice Draw or Microsoft Visio.

Re: Language Server Protocol

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Post by WorldMaker » Mon, Oct 03, 2016, 2:38 PM UTC

eatonphil wrote: post #5

Does anyone know what tool was used to create that diagram?

My first guess is Visio. (Followed by Excel, PowerPoint, or Word.)

Re: Language Server Protocol

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Post by IshKebab » Mon, Oct 03, 2016, 2:59 PM UTC

eatonphil wrote: post #5

Does anyone know what tool was used to create that diagram?

No idea, but if you want to make similar diagrams I recommend PlantUML. Default colours suck a bit but they are easy to change.

Re: Language Server Protocol

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Post by rkangel » Mon, Oct 03, 2016, 3:00 PM UTC

eatonphil wrote: post #5

Does anyone know what tool was used to create that diagram?

I very much doubt it was used in this case, but https://www.websequencediagrams.com/ is great if you want to do Message Sequence Charts.