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by whazor 705 days ago
Because people want a fast out of the box editing experience. Not clicking yes for every language server.

But what they should have is a CDN with their own extensions and verified binaries. This way they can ship new versions of extensions without bumping their editor version.
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mhd 705 days ago
> Not clicking yes for every language server.

How many language servers are we talking about here for the average dev? Three?

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theultdev 705 days ago
Yes, but you would have it for each time you opened a new workspace.

The only point of this would be if you didn't want to download the language server for untrusted code.

I think what people really want is workspace location permissions...

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Ygg2 705 days ago
Wait, what. Why should you keep downloading Node per workspace? If you have one installed already?
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theultdev 704 days ago
Not downloading, but enabling. The downloading of Node isn't really the issue that people are trying to make it.

The real problem is "running" the language server on untrusted code. That's where there should be a confirm dialog.

But it's a separate issue about workspace permissions.

That's the only vulnerability here and it exists on at least one some level in all editors in language servers. (VSCode's workspace permissions aren't that secure)

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tjpnz 705 days ago
>Because people want a fast out of the box editing experience. Not clicking yes for every language server.

That strikes me as more of a UX problem. Doing a bunch of sketchy things behind the user's back is absolutely not a solution though.

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herrkanin 705 days ago
The versions should generally match what's specified in the user's package.json. It doesn't make much sense then to have a separate registry.
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