It would be nice if you could configure a maximum memory amount it's allowed to use. It regularly goes over 13gb in my large workspace so I have to configure it to run in a cgroup so it gets killed when it goes over 8gb or I can't run the other things on my desktop that I need to. I restart nvim after it crashes and it's back to around 6gb and working fine so it doesn't seem to need 13 GB to function. If it could handle that gracefully on it's own without cgroups/restarts that'd be a win.
Regardless, thanks for your work on RA!
replyFeels like you are missing the point a little bit. LSP is a human facing tool, so providing a good user experience should be the ultimate goal of it. What you described, feels to me, is not quite aligned with this goal.
replyOf course, since you describe RA as "explicitly an experimental project to prototype the right architecture for an IDE", all that doesn't matter and you can set the project's goal to be whatever you want. However, it just sucks for us, the users, because RA is the only thing we have. I'm just glad to see someone else is trying to do something different. And may the best project win.
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replyThe goal always was to refactor rustc to make compiler-based LSP feasible. The idea of original RLS, "we'll just use the compiler", is fundamentally sound. It's just that you'll need to turn the compiler sideways to achieve that, which is a hard work to motivate without having a real example demonstrating the benefits (or having political clout in the project to just mandate that ^^)
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