> There was a decade of opportunity for OSS to coordinate around an IDE protocol, but that didn’t happen, because OSS is bad at coordination.
Its also because a lot of the key people in Open Source, and senior hackers generally, don't actually use IDEs.
We should encourage more of the younger generation over to powerful configurable editors such as Emacs, rather than locking everybody into VSCode/JetBrains/etc.
> We should encourage more of the younger generation over to powerful configurable editors such as Emacs, rather than locking everybody into VSCode/JetBrains/etc.
Isn't that precisely what LSP facilitates? I was using IDEs for like four years. Now I'm back to (neo)vim and couldn't be happier! There is no substitute for "jump to definition".
Its also because a lot of the key people in Open Source, and senior hackers generally, don't actually use IDEs.
We should encourage more of the younger generation over to powerful configurable editors such as Emacs, rather than locking everybody into VSCode/JetBrains/etc.