Re: PL support

[David Engster]

>> > I think Eli has indicated that LSP support in the core is desirable
>> > at some point
>>
>
>> Not only desirable: long overdue.  Emacs must learn to use the latest
>> technologies of supporting programming languages based on real
>> parsing, because the time when it could be done with regular
>> expressions and similar techniques has come and gone.  We cannot
>> enable significant new IDE-like features if we don't acquire these
>> technologies.
>>
>> Please someone start working on this ASAP.  We sorely need that, just
>> look at the recent discussions on Reddit that underline these
>> deficiencies in Emacs.
>
> Sorry to sound like captain obvious, but shouldn't we contact the
> people at https://github.com/emacs-lsp/lsp-mode and work with them on
> this? Maybe that's already the case? I know there are also other
> repositories with more or less the same goal.

The emacs-lsp people discussed this, see here

  https://github.com/emacs-lsp/lsp-mode/issues/83

Issue was closed with

  After we started using dash/f/s this is no longer possible. Also, eglot
  is in the core.

-David