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by Tyr42 3263 days ago
I'm a little confused as to what you propose instead.

Suppose I have vim, and the Rust compiler. I want to add RLS level of support to vim. I download some vimscript plugin, and what? Do you distribute the rust language server as a compiled plugin that you add to the address space of the editor at runtime? And if there's a bug, and it segfaults, then it takes down my entire VIM process?

It seems like there's some complexity in directly calling the code with an API too. It's actually not to bad to just open a pipe and communicate.

Maybe I'm missing something, but wrangling compiled plugins seems like it'd be a bad time.
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teacup50 3263 days ago
While I do love vim, its own high level of internal implementation brokenness doesn't really have much bearing on how one implements this sort of thing in a real multi-language IDE.

And as for your question, the answer is ... yes. Sure. Why not? That's what we already do in nearly all IDEs.

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Tyr42 3263 days ago
I mean, if you want to build a universal system, leaving out vim and emacs is just shooting yourself in the foot.

Are there any plugins which are binary compatible between more than one IDE? That seems hard.

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teacup50 3259 days ago
> I mean, if you want to build a universal system, leaving out vim and emacs is just shooting yourself in the foot.

Said no IDE user, ever.

> Are there any plugins which are binary compatible between more than one IDE? That seems hard.

No. And who cares?

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