LSP - the good, the bad and the ugly
https://www.michaelpj.com/blog/2024/09/03/lsp-good-bad-ugly.html
For a few years now I have been working on the Haskell Language Server (HLS), and the
lsplibrary for the LSP protocol and writing LSP servers. Unsurprisingly, I have developed some opinions about the design of the LSP!
A very interesting set of comments on the state of the LSP protocol, which is so central to the modern IDE experience and also... written exclusively by one person at Microsoft:
The LSP specification has, as far as I can tell, one committer, Dirk Bäumer, who works for Microsoft (I assume on the VSCode team). There have been many small contributions by outsiders, but nobody else has commit access.
There is zero open discussion of features before they are added to the spec. Typically they are implemented in VSCode, and then the specification is updated as a fait accompli to document those changes
Lots of other good tidbits in there.