VSCodium and C-language LSP server licensing

Posted May 7, 2020 10:28 UTC (Thu) by ber (subscriber, #2142)
In reply to: Making Emacs popular again by jgg
Parent article: Making Emacs popular again

Can you be more specific, about which part of the C-language LSP server are you referring to for being proprietary software?

To me if something is completely available as Free Software, is an important indicator and both a safeguard to make a software future proof. Thus https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium (an initiative to rebuild VSCode) is very interesting and what we recommend at the workplace to people that like this editor.

(Thanks LWN for the article and you all for the nice discussion (except the two comments born out of frustration from my point of view).)

VSCodium and C-language LSP server licensing

Posted May 7, 2020 18:09 UTC (Thu) by jsmith45 (guest, #125263) [Link]

The VS code default C/C++ extension (Microsoft/vscode-cpptools) uses a proprietary LSP based on MSVC and is therefore not open source.

Of course, one could use a different C LSP implementation, but that extension would not be designed for configuring and launching some other LSP server, so ideally you would want to use some other extension designed around the other LSP.