Re: eglot's interface for major modes

[Sebastian Poeplau <sebastian.poeplau@mailbox.org>]

>> The approach is probably inferior to the tree-sitter support for Ada
>> that you and others are working on,
>
> Why do you think that? ada_language_server does some semantic analysis
> (mostly name resolution), so the results are more precise than a syntax
> parser like wisitoken or tree-sitter can provide. ada_language_server is
> not incremental, but it's _very_ fast, so you have to have _very_ large
> files to notice a delay while editing.

My point was more about the out-of-process nature of language servers.
Having to send JSON messages back and forth on every buffer change to
support fontification seems less efficient than having a good in-process
parser, even if the message format compresses the data like LSP does
with semantic tokens.