ols

Odin's language server calls it "fake methods". https://odin-lang.org https://github.com/DanielGavin/ols

> it also requires GIGABYTES of crap you need to download on windows I was surprised by this since all I need on Linux is llvm and clang, but looking at the official getting started page, it does indeed say "MSVC compiler and windows SDK" are required. Is that really the only way to run it on windows, or is that just the path most familiar to a typical windows developer? I personally disagree with saying it requires IDE support. I want to write a ctags parser for it, but that's all I would ever use; as a die-hard vim user, I never liked all the language server stuff people are so reliant on these days. But if that's what people want to use, it's available for Odin as well: https://odin-lang.org/showcase/ols/ -or- https://github.com/DanielGavin/ols

IIRC, the odin language server now has method "dot-autocomplete" support that will reformat it into the function call with the variable as the first parameter. https://github.com/DanielGavin/ols

I started using Odin just recently, I'm very happy with it so far, it's exactly what I needed, a mix between Go (no garbage collector) and C, context system, bunch of allocators available, a sane module system (folder based) and tagged union.. very good stuff And they have a very polished language server https://github.com/DanielGavin/ols That helped me learn Odin in few hours only Give it a try, you might like it!