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Quick follow up, looked into the LSP spec and it does define "SemanticTokens" since 3.16

https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/specifi...

Obviously it depends on the LSP implementation but it looks expressive enough to replace treesitter?




That was interesting, thanks for pointing it out

I was tremendously sad to see that the Typescript Language Server wasn't owned by Microsoft <https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/impleme...>, since if there was any sanity in the world a spec bump would travel with a reference implementation showing how they envision such a thing being used

But, I found that the Typescript Language Server that they did list does indeed have a semantic-tokens module in it, although it's much shorter than I would have expected from reading that section in the spec: https://github.com/typescript-language-server/typescript-lan...


That code implements a (luckily) simple transformation from Microsoft's tsserver format to Microsoft's LSP format:

> Transforms the semantic token spans given by the ts-server into lsp compatible spans




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