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LSP is not required for syntax highlighting, and in most languages global/ctags is good enough for jump to definition

LSP is good though



It isn't good enough. There's a bunch of new languages coming out all the time, and even ones that are 10 years old (Clojure) aren't supported well in editors without LSP support, like Micro. LSP support allows the language ecosystem to provide the building blocks so that developers could write that in any editor that supports LSP.




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