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diff --git a/2023/talks/lspocaml.md b/2023/talks/lspocaml.md index d2ee96d2..7646c7b5 100644 --- a/2023/talks/lspocaml.md +++ b/2023/talks/lspocaml.md @@ -20,6 +20,27 @@ In this talk I plan to go over what LSP is, why it's important, getting started writing a language server, and supporting a language server in Emacs. +About the speaker: + +Austin Theriault is a software engineer at Semgrep, Inc. working on +their SAST tool Semgrep. In this talk he will cover the Language +Server Protocol, a way to provide language features to an editor, why +it's important to the future of editors, and how someone might go +about writing a server, and how to integrate it with Emacs. +# Discussion + +## Questions and answers + +- Q:Why not write the LSP server in OCaml? I missed the reasoning to + switch to Rust/etc - performance? + - A: The "stack" (cross-compilation, libraries, etc.) being less + developed than for developing LSP servers in, e.g., TypeScript +- Q: What are the corner cases, limitations, and other issues you + encountered in implementing an LSP server with client in Emacs, that + were surprising? + - A: Multiple, but performance being the big one. Caching + implementation. And then delivery/distribution (doing so + cross-platform given the OCaml tooling, etc.) [[!inline pages="internal(2023/info/lspocaml-after)" raw="yes"]] |