LSP

Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 6 years (2020–2025), in 7 threads.

People raised many different problems with LSP, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 8 complaints

Getting clangd to match IDE semantic search requires painful yak-shaving2025-10-17
Hard to use outside an editor because queries require exact file, line and column positions2025-08-18
Setting up language servers across projects and monorepos is hard to get working and maintain2024-12-25
LSP/intellisense stuff has pain points from time to time2022-10-15
LSP adds unwanted UI like breadcrumbs, doc popups and sidebars that must be configured away2022-08-03
LSP is slow and laggy, especially on a loaded machine2021-05-25
Editor freezes while typing when LSP server runs on large codebases2020-08-11
LSP modes in Emacs are slow and buggy, slower than the user can think2020-08-11