Re: [lsp4e-dev] Looking for cookbook for adding new LSPs

[Jonah Graham <jonah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 20 Aug 2019 at 08:00, David Goodenough <david.goodenough@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

That's good, as the Dotty(Scala-3) LSP is written using LSP4J, not sure about the Metals(Scala-2) LSP. I expect it will also simplify the installation instructions for the end user as they will simply install the plugin which will include the LSP.

FWIW running as a separate process or withing the JVM does not need to change the installation method. You can still ship the LSP as part of plug-in. Indeed that is what was done for wild web developer:  See language-servers in the repo and pom.xml lines that add the language server into the plug-in. Indeed for a JVM based language server it could be even easier as you can package up the class files in the same JAR and simply run that JAR.

Jonah