<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 7:32 PM via llvm-dev <<a href="mailto:llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org">llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">I haven't seen a clear description of who clangd users *are*.</span></p></div></div></blockquote><div>Good question!</div><div>The target audience is all C++ developers using editors where external IDE features make sense. (vim, emacs, vscode, sublime... not visual studio or notepad).</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="m_2887831456844480168WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">The argument seems to be premised on "clangd users are active contributors to some other GitHub
project and therefore want/expect a familiar experience for interacting with clangd providers." Is that actually your target user base?</span></p></div></div></blockquote><div>Replace "active contributors to" with "users of", and that's a pretty reasonable estimate in the near-term.</div><div>(I do hope we eventually reach some users who have never ventured beyond "apt-get install", but that's further out)</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="m_2887831456844480168WordSection1">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">There are certainly large non-GitHub-based open-source projects out there in the world. It's your prerogative to hand-wave them away, but you want to understand
that you are in fact doing that.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">--paulr</span></p></div></div></blockquote><div>The assumption is not that the user's primary work is done on Github, but that they've interacted with some project that is hosted there.</div><div>I'm sure that's not everyone, but it's an awful lot of people.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers, Sam</div></div></div>