Filippos Christou (Feb 10 2023 at 12:26): Filippos Christou (Feb 10 2023 at 12:26):is it only me that I might not have something well configured or generally LanguageServer.jl and meta-programming don't dance together ?
If that's the out of the box state, are there any nifty solutions ?
Sukera (Feb 10 2023 at 12:40):sadly that's the state of things :/
Filippos Christou (Feb 10 2023 at 12:52):hmm. any possible solutions or even discussions in the horizon ? this can get rather wild with package using a lot of macros (like JuMP.jl and Makie.jl to name a few popular ones)
Sukera (Feb 10 2023 at 12:54):macros are tricky because they are running actual user code on the source AST
Sukera (Feb 10 2023 at 12:54):maybe @Sebastian Pfitzner knows about this though
Filippos Christou (Feb 10 2023 at 13:00):I completely lack how knowledge on how LanguageServer.jl works at the moment. Does it not evaluate anything and just does static AST analysis ? then it's tough.
Filippos Christou (Feb 10 2023 at 13:01):what about JET.jl ? I think JET interprets some code and as I see here it also expands the macros. that should work..
Filippos Christou (Feb 10 2023 at 13:02):I remember some discussion about incorcporating JET as a linter and I've heard VSCode people already have something that works, but not sure what the stage is there for big adoption in LanguageServer.jl
Sukera (Feb 10 2023 at 13:03):JET works on a completely different level
Sukera (Feb 10 2023 at 13:04):you wouldn't use JET solely as a linter, you're probably thinking of the (not at all finished/workable) https://github.com/aviatesk/JETLS.jl
Sukera (Feb 10 2023 at 13:05):which tries to incorporate the things JET.jl reports as issues via a LanguageServer
Sukera (Feb 10 2023 at 13:05):doesn't integrate with the existing LanguageServer.jl
Sukera (Feb 10 2023 at 13:06):at the moment, LS.jl does its own parsing, but I'm not sure that it actually expands macros during that (as that may have sideffects)
Sebastian Pfitzner (Feb 10 2023 at 13:21):in theory we could do some very limited analysis of macro code, but a generic solution is not really possible with the current LS.jl design
Filippos Christou (Feb 10 2023 at 13:29):julia has some introspection tools, like@which, methods, .... ofc to use these you need to evaluate the code. Does the current design of LanguageServer.jl make use of such tools , i.e. evaluates the code ?
Sukera (Feb 10 2023 at 13:31):The core issue is that the language server would need to get VASTLY more information from a julia session that has loaded the package code. There just is no way a julia session in the current form can provide that information though, especially not for top level code (which is evaluated eagerly)
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