Language Servers with Gorkem Ercan

The Developers' Bakery

We’re back with another episode about developer tooling and this time we’re diving into the world of Language Servers!

We have the pleasure to have on stage Gorkem Ercan, the CTO of Jozu and member of the Eclipse Foundation Board. Gorkem will walk us through his journey in the world of Language Servers, from writing Visual Studio Code plugins to building both the Java and the YAML Language Server.

We’ll also talk a lot about Eclipse IDE, the Eclipse Foundation, and we’ll touch also on his new project: Kitops.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

• 00.00 Intro
• 00.55 Episode Start
• 01.19 Gorkem’s Introduction
• 02.55 What are Language Servers?
• 05.05 Gorkem’s language servers journey
• 10.50 Writing Visual Studio Code plugins
• 12.42 Syntax Highlightning vs Language Servers
• 14.33 Challenges of writing a Language Server
• 17.47 The YAML Language Server
• 20.16 YAML vs Java
• 23.22 Moving to the Eclipse Foundation
• 25.02 Life in the Eclipse Foundation
• 28.50 Being a member of the board
• 30.17 Eclipse IDE today
• 33.46 What is Jozu?
• 38.21 From Language Servers to ML models handoff?
• 42.14 Takeaways from writing Language Servers
• 44.13 OSS in Startups vs Foundations
• 47.54 Further reading
• 50.21 Where people can find you online?

Resources

• eclipse-jdtls/eclipse.jdt.ls on GitHub
• redhat-developer/yaml-language-server on GitHub
• redhat-developer/vscode-java on GitHub
• redhat-developer/vscode-yaml on GitHub
• Language Server Protocol Reference
• Kitops Official Website
• Kitops Discord server
• @gorkem on GitHub
• @GorkemErcan on Twitter

Show links

• Podcast Website
• The Developers’ Bakery on Spotify
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• @thebakerydev on Twitter
• @cortinico on Twitter