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0 pointswildmanx4y ago0 comments

> This means we ended up building completions by hand and soon, via the community.

You like people to contribute for free ("build a community") but refuse to give them an actual FOSS client. This is bound to fail.

There are ways to make this go both ways though, and I hope you'll make them work once you are a bit further along in your journey. Exciting project!

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scottlamb4y ago· 1 in thread

Meh, I could be into it without them providing a FOSS implementation. Think of Microsoft's language server protocol. It's nice that VS Code is open source, but even if it weren't, we might still be using this protocol with rust-analyzer and neovim. Or any number of older protocols/formats with RFCs that didn't start with good FOSS implementations.

In the case of completion, if you can generate (less rich but still useful) bash/zsh/fish completion scripts from these files, program authors might be happy to use it even in the absence of a fancy terminal.

Siira4y ago

There exists multiple fully functional FOSS LSP clients. The semi-proprietariness of VS Code does not doom LSP.

The documentation people would contribute to Warp though are unlikely to have any popular FOSS clients.

wodenokoto4y ago· 1 in thread

> You like people to contribute for free ("build a community") but refuse to give them an actual FOSS client. This is bound to fail.

Sublime text has a pretty active community that builds and shares extensions.

Why not warp?

ushakov4y ago

Sublime is selling a product that users can purchase and own

Warp is owned by venture capitalists

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