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Lexical: A Work of Elegant Genius
Lexical's LSP encoding is fast and easy to work with, especially in early and Elixir. You're optimizing by doing some pre-processing to see if anything needs to happen to it. And then we do a really clever thing when it does have UTF-16. We can go through and just iterate through the characters,. Do a little math on them, and then turn them into Unicode code points very, very, very quickly.
Language Servers underpin the language specific support we rely on in modern code editors. Lately, there have been new efforts in this area in the Elixir community. We talk with Steve Cohen about his project Lexical LS to learn about his new Elixir Language Server, how long he's been at it, and what it can do today. We learn about some of the technical challenges when creating a tool like this, and why there's still room for new projects in this area. Steve explains how Lexical LS is architected and that it is a goal to be easy to contribute to and work on the Lexical project itself. Time to give it a try!
Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/161
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