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Subject: Re: VSCode extension - Ada Utilities
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> Thanks. It's hard to know whether something is of general interest when it 
> seems to be described in code. Not everyone has heard of your (generic 
> "your" here) favorite coding tool...


Visual Studio Code is actually worth knowing about. I haven't used it myself,
but the reason it is interesting is that it has come with a new protocol named
the Language Server Protocol that is used by a lot of editors/IDEs nowadays to
do things like cross-reference queries ("go to declaration of", "find all references") to refactoring ("rename an entity"), and more.

To the point that most languages nowadays come with such a server (Ada has one based on libadalang, too). Those servers can be queried from vim (which I use),
from Emacs (Stephen has started looking into that for ada-mode, as per a discussion two weeks ago), from GPS (where the Ada language server comes from), Visual Studio Code, and a lot of others.