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Frankly, if your language can't compile a .so/.dll that can interact with the rest of the system in a sane way, use a better language.

I used to disagree with Blow on this point, as stdin/stdout communication really has the arguable advantage that you can write your Brainfuck LSP in Brainfuck, but I've spent way more time than I find reasonable over the last few years dealing with the consequences of the LSP model - tweaking environment variables, paths, command line arguments for the server, server crashes, mismatches of server version vs the compiler, the client picking the wrong server executable, system-provided language vs downloaded by VS code extension......

I'd rather just drop a dll in Plugins/ and be done with it.



> Frankly, if your language can't compile a .so/.dll that can interact with the rest of the system in a sane way, use a better language.

Feel free to only use languages you personally find aesthetically pure. The rest of us will continue getting work done.


With a DLL, a crash in the server becomes a crash of your whole editor.




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