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oofbeyyesterday at 7:39 PM1 replyview on HN

I should know this, but what's LSP? Language Server Protocol - I can read. But what's that?


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3836293648yesterday at 9:03 PM

It's the protocol that VSC made to speak to programs that do code analysis and is the basis of goto definition, autocomplete, refactorings etc.

It's used by most smaller editors so they can backpack off of the efforts languages make to be usable in VSC. (Vim, Emacs, Zed, etc)

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