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Long LSP and treesitter: they are *still* underrated in how impactful they are to the present and future of editor tooling. We're just starting to scratch the surface on what we can build with them. Here's things we haven't even done yet:

- We can build jq that works with any language works with treesitter, not just JSON.
- We can make a tool that generates control flow diagrams for any language.
- LLMs can use TS grammars to tightly constrain valid output, vastly reducing training costs and possibly model sizes.
- We can make plugins that augments tooling for any language that works with any editor (not just programming!), a lot of AI-assistants already use hooks like this.
- Agents can interface with language structures at a higher level (AST) rather than sending text diffs back and forth.

These two technologies began a golden age of editor tooling, and we're just getting started.
https://x.com/shazow/status/1406289893895122951

Language Server Protocol isn’t talked about nearly enough. It really made Visual Studio Code and its family of IDEs the awesome developer experience that it is.