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Oct 24, 2023 at 03:01
Really thoughtful critique of the Language Server Protocol, what IDEs need to express, and the design decisions made.
LSP could have been better
We talk about programming like it is about writing code, but the code ends up being less important than the architecture, and the architecture ends up being less important than social issues.

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The Matter protocol is excellent for puns. "Does it Matter? It doesn't Matter."
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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.
Jul 28, 2023 at 04:45
The book 'The Art of the Metaobject Protocol' has two chapters in the public domain and available online! Chapter 5: Concepts Chapter 6: Generic Functions and Methods
Common Lisp Object System Metaobject Protocol | Articles | HexstreamSoft
HexstreamSoft version of the Common Lisp Object System Metaobject Protocol specification, based on Robert Strandh