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Nov 17, 2017 at 19:06
Microsoft patching a compiled binary to fix a security issue: https://0patch.blogspot.co.uk/2017/11/did-microsoft-just-manually-patch-their.html Adding an additional parameter without changing the instruction count of functions is no mean feat!
0patch Blog: Did Microsoft Just Manually Patch Their Equation Editor Executable? Why Yes, Yes They Did. (CVE-2017-11882)

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TIL that LSP 3.18 was released this month! Several APIs now support richer content, such as tooltips or docs on code action kinds. Signature help continues to improve too, allowing you see more about a function at its call site.
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Delighted to see that Typescript 7 is moving to conventional LSP for its IDE services!
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In LSP, a position is represented as a line number and a column offset (in Unicode code units): https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/specifications/lsp/3.17/specification/#position This is pretty elegant. You'll get the correct line regardless of encoding bugs, and the editor already knows the line number so it's cheap to compute.
Specification
This document describes the 3.17.x version of the language server protocol. An implementation for node of the 3.17.x version of the protocol can be found here.