bug#67441: [PATCH] eglot: Add ruff-lsp as an alternative python server

[João Távora]

On Fri, Dec 15, 2023 at 1:22 AM Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Niall Dooley <dooleyn@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > ruff-lsp [1] is a Language Server Protocol implementation for Ruff [2,
> > 3], an extremely fast Python linter and code formatter, written in
> > Rust.
> >
> > It supports surfacing Ruff diagnostics and providing Code Actions to
> > fix them, but is intended to be used alongside another Python LSP in
> > order to support features like navigation and autocompletion.
> >
> > [1]: https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff-lsp
> > [2]: https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff
> > [3]: https://docs.astral.sh/ruff/
>
> João, any comments here?  Does eglot support running more than one LSP
> server at the same time?

No.  This is the same question of Eli, who phrased it "alongside".

> AFAICT, pylsp (for example) has built-in support for ruff, so while I'm
> sure there's a use case for ruff-lsp, I don't think I currently
> understand it.

Me neither.  The fact that some language servers (pylsp, clangd) already
do what the hypothetical Eglot feature for running servers alongside each
other would do, is also the main reason why that feature has lost some
(definitely not all) of its relevance.

> In any case, I think the patch seems harmless enough, and could probably
> be installed as-is.

Agree.  Install at will.

João