Re: New egg (json-rpc) and some words about LSP

[Mario Domenech Goulart]

On Sat, 17 Apr 2021 19:22:29 +0000 "Ricardo G. Herdt" <r.herdt@posteo.de> wrote:

> I created a simple JSON-RPC implementation that I would like to
> share. @Mario, can you please add it to the coop?
>
> https://gitlab.com/rgherdt/scheme-json-rpc

Thanks, Ricardo.  Your egg has been added to the coop.

> It's my first library release, so any ideas regarding the API are
> welcome. The calling procedures are rather simple for now, for
> instance they are only synchronous and JSON-RPC's ID feature is
> completely ignored. I mainly focused on the server-side so far.
>
> The code structure is rather atypical, since I'm striving to keep it
> portable to other implementations. The reason is that I'm using this
> to develop a LSP server for scheme. As mentioned during the last
> Coding Jam, the LSP server currently focuses on CHICKEN 5 and Guile,
> and regarding C5 I already managed to implement support for
> auto-completion, find-signature and documentation fetching. There are
> still some problems, for instance I noticed that chicken-doc doesn't
> find some symbols like 'string-map under (scheme base). Any ideas why?
>
> The LSP server is mainly tcp socket base, although using it with
> standard input/output shouldn't be a problem. I'm still not sure what
> are the tradeoffs between both options though.
>
> I also started writing a LSP client for VSCode. Although I'm an emacs
> user, I think VSCode support could help atracting new users, so that's
> why I'm focusing on it first. It also helps that it's LSP support is
> obviously very mature. If someone wants to work on a different client,
> feel free to contact me (rgherdt on #chicken).
>
> LSP features might be not as rich as say the Swank protocol. But we
> can add custom commands to it (I did it to send 'load requests to the
> server). So it looks quite flexible.
>
> For those curious about the current state:
> https://gitlab.com/rgherdt/scheme-lsp-server
> https://gitlab.com/rgherdt/vscode-scheme-lsp

Nice work!  Thanks for sharing.

All the best.
Mario
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