[kibwen]

LSP--or rather the general idea of a common interface between IDEs and language-specific static analyzers--is a very good idea regardless of GCC or VSCode. Which isn't to say that LSP made universally correct design decisions (e.g. it's fair to be grumpy at JSON), and also isn't to say that it represents the be-all end-all of IDE integration (the fact that it necessarily represents a lowest-common-denominator interface is well-understood). But having such a standard to establish a baseline of support between languages and editors with the minimal amount of work possible is something that needed to be done.