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by felipeccastro 300 days ago
I agree with all your points but last I tried, the VS Code LSP was terrible. It’s hard to justify a new language when even the basics of autocomplete, inline errors and go to definition don’t work well. Part of the reason was that any function can be called on anything, which pollutes the autocomplete list.

Has the LSP situation improved yet? Similar issue with Crystal lang, which I enjoy even more than Nim.
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elcritch 300 days ago
Unfortunately the LSP hasn’t improved that much. There’s been some work on to kill errant processes and such. So it’s a bit more stable. It does work pretty well when it works though. But I just kill it now.

Unfortunately it may not be until Nim 3 based on the Nimony rewrite comes out. It supports incremental compiling and caching which will make the underlying LSP tooling much better.

However I find with Cursor that I don’t mind so much the missing autocomplete. I’ve actually thought about writing an alternative LSP just for quick find and error inlining…

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dvfjsdhgfv 300 days ago
Frankly, I'm surprised this is the only issue you bring up (I had many, when I first tried Nim several years ago - I think they were related to cross-platform GUI libraries for Nim, or the lack of them, or their awful state back then).

But LSP as a major concern? For me these little helpers are useful to catch small typos but I could happily do without them.

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felipeccastro 300 days ago
It's not just small typos, it's the ability to explore apis, the standard library, go to definition, quickly catch any error at the location it happens, not having to memorize large models and their field names, the list goes on.

I can work without an LSP, but when I'm searching for a new language that would be used by a team (including Junior devs) it's hard to justify something missing the basics of good DX. I haven't tried it with Cursor though, it might be less of a dealbreaker at this point.

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konart 300 days ago
How do you navigate through a project with things like `go to definition` or `incoming calls`? (given that we are talking about a relatively large code base maintained by more that one or two individuals)

You can do it with just rg or something similar but it will give you many false positives and are going to waste quite some time.

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