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by AmalgatedAmoeba 402 days ago
Are they though? * Rust was designed before even vscode was released * Zig, Odin, JAI are all designed by people that don’t use LSP and don’t like it * Don’t know about Carbon, but it currently doesn’t look like it’s gonna kill anything

It seems to me that rust analyzer is something of an exception

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Zig has on the roadmap the creation of a compiler REPL to power all kinds of code intelligence tools, including LSPs. This item is blocking only on finishing incremental compilation.
Sure and the incremental compiler work is genuinely amazing. I was objecting purely to the notion that this new crop of systems languages is “designed from day one” around LSP, which doesn’t seem to be quite true