Floyd Language Server

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Summary

The implementation of a language server serves the purpose of being able to provide a bunch of useful, computationally heavy language features such as intellisense, code actions, formatting etc.

Features

In a first step we want to provide a basic language server setup that can parse arbitrary Floyd source code files and emit diagnostics of code issues.

The following list of features could be supported:

• 👆 Provide diagnostics (Diagnostic Support #18)
• 👉 Show code completion proposals (Code Completion Support #19)
• 👆 Show hovers (Hover Support #20)
• 👉 Help with function and method signatures (Method and Function Signature Support #21)
• 👆 Show definitions of a symbol (Go To Definition Support #22)
• 👉 Find all references to a symbol (Find References Support #23)
• 👆 Highlight all occurrences of a symbol in a document
• 👉 Show all symbol definitions within a document (Go To Definition Support #22)
• 👉 Show all symbol definitions in a folder (Go To Definition Support #22)
• 👉 Possible actions on errors or warnings
• 👇 Show actionable context information within source code
• 👉 Show color decorators
• 👆 Format source code in an editor
• 👉 Format the selected lines in an editor
• 👇 Incrementally format code as the user types
• 👆 Rename symbols (Rename Symbol Support #24)

The entire development process is summarized in the corresponding project.

References

• VS Code: Programmatic Language Features