Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers

[tomas]

On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 05:32:21PM +0300, Dmitry Gutov wrote:
> 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.

There seems to be something in the works for gcc:

  https://gcc.gnu.org/legacy-ml/gcc-patches/2017-07/msg01448.html

Cheers
-- t

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