Re: PL support (was: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs)

[Philippe Vaucher]

> > 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.