Processing Language Server : Processing

Processing Language Server focuses on creating a Language Server Protocol (LSP) implementation for Processing Programming Language. PDE is currently built using Java and using custom components of the Swing Framework, which is ~ deprecated. The long term goal of Processing is to replace this with a JS based IDE to bring in more contributors and to make building UIs simple. While planning on building such IDE, LSP is of significant importance for any language that the IDE relays on. Since Processing is the targeted Programming language, it’s quite important to build a Language Server Protocol for the same. This shall act as a benchmark for all the crucial activities of the IDE such as auto-completion, go-to-definition, hover-insights and so on. LSP will also help in easy and seamless integration of the above functionalities in any editor such as Atom, VScode, etc.