Apple Opens Up Swift/C LSP Based On Clangd

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Apple Opens Up Swift/C LSP Based On Clangd

Built atop LLVM's clangd server, Apple recently open-sourced SourceKit-LSP as a language server protocol for Swift and C-based languages. This allows for better integration with various IDEs and development tools...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Apple-Swift-C-LSP-Clangd

[GunpowaderGuy]

microsoft standard is already widely implemented , why would anyone use this ?

[uid313]

I wish the GtkSourceView component in GTK+ had support for LSP.

[Pajn]

microsoft standard is already widely implemented , why would anyone use this ?

They are implementing Microsoft LSP, not creating their own one.
The article is extremely confused and misleading.

[pal666]

microsoft standard is already widely implemented , why would anyone use this ?

this is the (wide) implementation of microsoft's (standard) language server protocol. what did you try to say?

[pal666]

btw, lsp is rare example of useful contribution from microsoft

[Lycanthropist]

How does it compare to clangd, cquery or ccls?