Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 26.04.2020 06:19, Richard Stallman wrote:

> However, if the language server is based on LLVM, by suggesting
> people install it we would be working towards the replacement
> of GNU packages with a non-copylefted competitor.
>
> That isn't immoral, but it is self-defeating.

tsserver is written in JavaScript and runs on Node. Node is released 
under Apache license, but there are no GNU alternatives for it.

I don't think we have any language servers in GNU either, do we? But 
when and if an alternative based on GCC appears, we can easily start 
recommending it instead. LSP is an open protocol.

Until then, alas, AFAIK all such language tooling for editors/IDE/etc 
out there is based on LLVM or some part of it.