<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 3:08 PM Alex L <<a href="mailto:arphaman@gmail.com">arphaman@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg">Thanks Manuel, I'm quite excited to hear that about ClangD!<div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg">I have a couple of questions:</div><div class="gmail_msg">Do you think ClangD would be able to replace libclang in the future? Would it be possible to deprecate libclang for IDE use after ClangD catches up to it, or should we keep libclang as it is even after that point?</div></div></blockquote><div> </div><div>In the foreseeable future, I don't see libclang going away. Not everybody is able to switch to a new development workflow easily, and there is a lot of investment in the current libclang based workflows.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_extra gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_msg"></div></div></div></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_extra gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_msg">On 25 January 2017 at 13:11, Manuel Klimek via cfe-dev <span dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg"><<a href="mailto:cfe-dev@lists.llvm.org" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">cfe-dev@lists.llvm.org</a>></span> wrote:<br class="gmail_msg"></div></div></div></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_extra gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_msg"><blockquote class="gmail_quote gmail_msg" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg">Hi fellow clang devs,<div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg">we wanted to let you know that we're (finally) starting up work on ClangD, which you might know from email threads such as [1] (June 2012!).</div><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg">In the meantime, YCM had done a good enough job at packaging up a libclang interface to our favorite editors, and other priorities (like modules) have eaten up a lot of folks priority lunches.</div><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg">What has changed?</div><div class="gmail_msg">1. YCM is starting to develop more and more into a language multiplexer, with other languages (Go, Typescript, etc) providing their own servers to talk to</div><div class="gmail_msg">2. MS has created a language server protocol [2], which already has both a bunch of client and server implementations</div><div class="gmail_msg">3. Debugging through python into libclang crashers is a pain and eating our support resources</div><div class="gmail_msg">4. While libclang is a good abstraction if you want to have something run in your process with close coupling, a standard protocol like the language server protocol seems like a better way to allow fast iterations on the server implementation without the need to keep backward-compatibility hacks through a restrictive C API.</div><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg">One of the cool things about the MS language server protocol is that it seems to not actually do any networking, which means that we do not need to introduce any new dependencies into clang-tools-extra, which is where we want to start developing this.</div><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg">If you have any thoughts / concerns let me know; otherwise look forward to code reviews on initial ClangD dropping by :D</div><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg">Cheers,</div><div class="gmail_msg">/Manuel</div><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg">[1] <a href="http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/cfe-dev/2012-June/022028.html" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/cfe-dev/2012-June/022028.html</a></div><div class="gmail_msg">[2] <a href="https://github.com/Microsoft/language-server-protocol" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">https://github.com/Microsoft/language-server-protocol</a></div><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div></div>
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