Hi PDT team and fellows,
Perhaps you have heard about the Language Server Protocol [1] and its
integration with the Eclipse IDE, a.k.a. LSP4E [2].
In a nutshell, the idea is that the intellisense for IDE/editors is
provided by external processes - language servers. The communication is
done through a standard protocol - the Language Server Protocol. This
way the intellisense is decoupled from the IDE and can be shared across
the different IDE/editors on the market. The language server can be
implemented in any programming language - ideally in the language it
provides the intellisense for. Thus, the communities around each
programming language can be involved in the development of the language
servers.
This whole initiative has an amazing support so far. There are language
servers implemented for lots of languages [3], including for PHP. The
PHP Language Server [4] is implemented in pure PHP and is reusing
existing PHP tools like the PHP Parser and PHP_CodeSniffer. It already
attracts contributions by PHP developers and it has really the potential
to become the best intellisense implementation for PHP.
As we (the Zend team) believe in the long term success of this whole
idea, we started an integration of the PHP Language Server with the
Eclipse IDE. It is still in an early stage and cannot compare to the
existing functionality in PDT, but in the long term it can really
replace large parts of PDT.
The current state is already quite usable and is available on a GitHub
repo at EclipseLabs [5]. A ready-to-use update site is already
available. Check the README fie.
We hope you like the idea and join the effort by contributing to either
the PHP Language Server or LSP4E projects.
[1] https://github.com/Microsoft/language-server-protocol
[2] https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/technology.lsp4e
[3]
https://github.com/Microsoft/language-server-protocol/wiki/Protocol-Implementations
[4] https://github.com/felixfbecker/php-language-server
[5] https://github.com/eclipselabs/lsp4e-php
Best regards,
Kaloyan Raev| Zend Studio Team Lead
Rogue Wave Software, Inc.
Accelerating Great Code
*M* +359 887 648 663
www.roguewave.com <http://www.roguewave.com> / [email protected]
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