Lucid went bankrupt as far as I remember :)

And that proves what?

Sadly the best ideas aren't always the ones that get widespread adoption.

Here we are now, about 30 years later still trying to get major C++ environments to offer some of those ideas.

It proves nothing, it's just about my original comment about Microsoft:

> bringing the idea of language servers to the programming mainstream

Lucid failed to do this, Microsoft succeeded.

The simplicity of you statement ignores what it meant to get a computer running Energize C++ properly in 1993 and an Electron (VSCode) app in 2017.

Specially the money part.

The Microsoft Tablet PCs and the Apple Newton failed because the hardware wasn't there yet. C'est la vie...

Just financially, but never intellectually at least. ;)