Symbol Viewer vs LSP client

[Christoph Cullmann (cullmann.io)]

On 2022-06-10 11:47, Alain Laporte wrote:
> Why is it more complicated to setup LSP servers on Windows?

On Linux, I get the most ones running for free
via the package manager of the distro.

For Windows you either need to fiddle manually
to install them or pick some arbitrary package
manager and use that one.

That makes the usual

xxx install clangd (or similar)

a lot more tricky.

Greetings
Christoph

> 
> Alain.
> 
> Le ven. 10 juin 2022 à 10:50, Christoph Cullmann (cullmann.io [1])
> <christoph at cullmann.io> a écrit :
> 
>> On 2022-06-10 10:17, Alain Laporte wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> Symbol Viewer and LSP Client do the same jobs. And LSP Client does
>> a
>>> lot more. What do you think if Symbol Viewer will be dedicated
>> only to
>>> non language documents like XML. And LSP Client dedicated to
>>> programming language?
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I guess that depends on the use case.
>> 
>> Not all people have working LSP server setups and on e.g. Windows
>> it is a lot harder to have such a thing running.
>> 
>> On the other side the symbols stuff works there, too.
>> 
>> I would naturally would focus the effort on improving the LSP
>> experience and perhaps it makes sense to focus the symbol viewer
>> focus only on languages no real LSP things are around.
>> 
>> Greetings
>> Christoph
>> 
>>> 
>>> Alain.
>> 
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