Why don't people explain their acronyms? What is a Rust LSP?

People communicate with regards to the audience they expect.

This is why Rust (it’s a systems programming language) and LSP (the language server protocol invented by VS Code) are not explained in the article.

I am hoping I don’t have to define the words I used, but if in doubt, Google or ChatGPT are your friends.

It makes sense to always explain acronyms. I always do to avoid random people reaching out for more explanations

	▲	sfdlkj3jk342a an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> It makes sense to always explain acronyms. It does up until a point. Would you say the same about "AI"? What about "LLM"? On HN (Hacker News), I expect that most would find a definition for AI or LLM to be redundant today. LSP is borderline in my opinion, especially when the context of Rust is already given.
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francislavoie 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Language Server Protocol, it's what your IDE (like VSCode or other) uses to do linting, syntax checking, and "go to reference" stuff.

Fnoord an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

IshKebab 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

LSP is a well known term among programmers these days.

Not if an LLM writes your code. I get thousands of lines of high quality Rust per day without ever stepping into VScode.

> Not if an LLM writes your code. I get thousands of lines of high quality Rust per day without ever stepping into VScode.

LSPs are orthogonal to both LLMs and VSCode. For example, see Metals[0].

wtetzner an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Then why not just ask the LLM to explain what LSP stands for?

nasso_dev 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

what's an "LLM"? ;3

0x457 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Very little quality, let alone high-quality, code is written in VSCode.

How do you know it's high quality?

I made myself an expert at Rust before I started using LLM's, and I review the code.

	▲	verandaguy an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		You made yourself an expert in Rust and have never heard of an LSP? This seems surprising to me given that Rust was one of the first languages to broadly advertise a toolchain and editor integrations which rely on the technology.
	▲	polyaniline an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Props to you. I've been writing Rust for around 7 years now and I couldn't QA 1000s of lines per day.