UTF-16 was always a mistake[1]. Good riddance. Time to get it out of LSP specification[2] as well.
[1] http://utf8everywhere.org/
[2] https://github.com/microsoft/language-server-protocol/issues...
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language-server-protocol
Defines a common protocol for language servers.
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| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 14 | 4 | 10 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 18 | 1 | 17 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 8 | 0 | 8 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
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4 sourcesA source for LSP growing out of OmniSharp? Interestingly I'm not finding much. This isn't a totally accurate history but it's close enough: https://blog.logrocket.com/how-to-use-the-language-server-pr...
The original project was at https://github.com/nosami/Omnisharp (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6006954). But over time it was split into several repos.
The history article above says that OmniSharp started out on Roslyn, but actually it originally used NRefactory. The old server is here: https://github.com/OmniSharp/omnisharp-server
EDIT: Oh, just found https://github.com/microsoft/language-server-protocol/wiki/P... . This cites OmniSharp and also the TypeScript language server.
In BBEdit 14I wish they would provide a machine-readable version of the specification: https://github.com/microsoft/language-server-protocol/issues...
Well that and use utf-8 string indexing (which is easier for every other language than javascript): https://github.com/microsoft/language-server-protocol/issues...
In Reflections on IDEA vs VS CodeIt looks like this is blocked upstream by the language server protocol not passing the current selection for hover requests [0].
0: https://github.com/microsoft/language-server-protocol/issues...
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