do you plan to support the language server protocol (LSP) ?

[martinlippert]

Is there support for the language server protocol planned for CodeEdit? (https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/) It would allow CodeEdit to get deep and feature rich language support for all kinds of languages without the need to re-implement everything for every language. It would open up the door to have the same level of TypeScript support in CodeEdit as VSCode has - just by re-using the language server implementation of VSCode.

Any thoughts/plans around this?

[austincondiff]

Yes, LSP support is a highly anticipated feature and is actively being worked on. We want to get it right so it may be a while before it is released. As always, we encourage anyone who is able to get involved to help things move faster.

[martinlippert]

Hey @austincondiff, that is great to hear. Not sure how I could help out here (not a Swift or macOS API expert), but we have a lot of experience building language servers and helped out on implementing the LSP support for Eclipse, so maybe we could help by trying our language servers and giving feedback and reporting issues? Just an idea.

So if we can get our hands on the work-in-progress in this area to try things and provide feedback, let me know.

[FastestMolasses]

Hi @martinlippert! We've built a lot of the backend parts for our LSP support, however we do need to build out the UI that can call these APIs. I'll push my branch into main along with some tests and we can start testing out different language servers. I've currently only tested Rust and Python.

[austincondiff]

@martinlippert thank you for your willingness to help! A lot of us didn't start out on this project as Swift experts. We are very appreciative to whatever you are able to do. As @FastestMolasses said, a lot of work on this has been done but we do still need to get the UI in place. As you test other servers, please let us know if we are missing anything and what we need to get this working as expected. Feel free to also reach out on Discord for quicker communication.

[ethanc8]

See CodeEditApp/CodeEditSourceEditor#40 -- it looks like this has been the main tracking issue for the past couple of years.

[boozook]

Could be great to able for user to describe any custom LS in the settings (for me preferably without UI, just json-like file) — that gives to user support of absolutely any LSP-implementing language server.