I wrote this for the infracost LSP so I could write multiple IDE extensions. Its not even really a language server, its just a neat way to parse the Terraform/Cloudformation and return diagnostics.

Language servers are cool!

I actually started out using that. I wanted a debug UI to track messages which was the major driver in creating my own tbh

To give you some idea how versatile a language server is, I wrote one once to provide go-to-definition between two related blocks in a large proprietary YAML configuration file. If the definition was missing, it would also render the red squiggly line to indicate that something was misspelled.

Another time I used one to make the hosts in my SSH configuration file clickable to either open a terminal with a session or just to display cpu/memory statistics.

Lots of neat editor-independent interactions can be enabled using language servers.

thanks!

Thankfully, I finally had a reason to build an LSP (infracost LSP), so it motivated this and I'm really pleased with it

The godoc format enforces that the comment start with the name of the identifier and be a complete sentence(s) describing what that identifier does. Predates LLMs

Yeah some times godoc comments look crap by necessity