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Sep 25, 2022 at 17:38
The motivations of YouCompleteMe, emphasising a design that requires the user to press no buttons to see completions:
YouCompleteMe, a Fast, As-You-Type, Fuzzy-Search Code Completion Engine for Vim - Val Markovic
It has an identifier-based engine that works with every programming language and a Clang-based engine that provides semantic code completion for C and C++.

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Mar 21, 2018 at 19:23
Hack, the PHP dialect, uses a persistent hh_server so linting, finding definitions etc is fast. Whilst this is a more common model today (language server protocol, YouCompleteMe), it's an interesting design considering PHP is based on short-lived processes.
Dec 1, 2015 at 21:29
How to design a good API for autocompletion, based on experience with YouCompleteMe:
Rust Language Server (IDE support) by nrc · Pull Request #1317 · rust-lang/rfcs
Rust Language Server (IDE support) by nrc · Pull Request #1317 · rust-lang/rfcs
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