[lucacasonato]

TypeScript does not actually have a native language server. TSC is just directly shoehorned into VS Code. It is very difficult to extend (we tried with the 1.x and 2.x branch of our extension). We needed to do a lot of trickery to get TSC to do what we want, and even then it would not always work. That solution also only worked on VS Code. Our new LSP works on all editors with LSP support. We are hoping that in the coming few weeks / months the Deno LSP will be just as featureful as TSC + Node in VS Code, and way more performant. We still have some ways to go, but we are slowly getting there.

[paxys]

This is only partially true. TypeScript does have tsserver built in, which is where the language server design originated from (just with a slightly different API). The VS Code TypeScript integration is a layer around that, not a custom implementation. There are also a couple other TypeScript language servers out there (which again simply wrap tsserver and translate the APIs) which work great.

[brundolf]

Ah gotcha, that's unfortunate that they integrated it directly, though it explains a lot.

Well I'm glad to hear it's a priority. Best of luck, and I'll try to check in periodically and see how things are coming along! I would very much like to see this project succeed :)