[geoka9]

I agree, a common standard would be good. That said, experience taught me to distrust any proposed standard that comes out of Microsoft. Besides, I find that with the programming editor communities, such standards are not that important - as long as a language has the tooling, it'll be integrated, standard or no standard.

[josteink]

This protocol is about reducing the N languages and M editors = N*M client/server implementations with a much better N+M solution, where we don't have to reinvent 200 wheels every time someone makes a new editor or language.

And the protocol is open. Seriously what do you have to lose, besides a shit-ton of redundant work?

Distrust? Distrust exactly what? Are you sure you aren't being your own worst enemy?

See here for a list of fully open source and MS-independent implementations: http://langserver.org/

[josteink]

Too late to edit, so replying to self.

Looking at that list, I see Go is actually doing pretty well these days. I retract my criticism.

That said, as the page shows, having full editor support these days is getting pretty common.