Create a full language server in Go with 3.17 spec support
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HN · launched Mar 24, 2026 · 93 upvotes (top 10%) · 1 view
Niche: software development frameworks · 154 launches, 2 in the last 7 days ▼ -89% · Explore this niche →
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- Dev tools
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- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
No Implementing an LSP 3.17-compliant language server in Go involves deep compiler engineering, parsing/AST generation, incremental semantic analysis, symbol indexing, and strict JSON-RPC protocol adherence.
What it would actually take: A developer needs Go, tree-sitter or custom lexer/parsers, and a structured JSON-RPC handling framework. The difficult aspects are incremental text document synchronization, semantic tokenization, type-checking, reference resolution, and managing low-latency symbol caches across massive codebases without blocking the main event loop.
Discussion
18 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: glsp - Go Language Server Protocol library
Concerns raised: Handler panics crash the server and don't keep connection alive, Godoc comment format requirement feels verbose for simple items
Feature requests: Debug UI to track LSP messages, Error recovery when handlers panic
Competitors
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Attention rank: #17 of 250 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 134 days after the earliest competitor.
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