Many languages already have something like this. For example, look into ENSIME, ghc-modi, and Racer. I guess the innovation here would be a common protocol for "any" language, but I somewhat doubt that this will have much adoption outside of the .NET/Typescript communities.
Well it's nice to know there's at least some 3rd party support listed:
> the protocol has been adopted by Codenvy, who have added it to the next generation Eclipse IDE, Eclipse Che, as well as by Red Hat, who are working to publish a standalone language server for Java which can be consumed by any tool that utilizes the protocol.
> ... communities for programming languages like OmniSharp (C#), JSON, C++, xText, JavaFX, and R have made commitments to release language servers for their languages in the future.
Obviously we'll see if it actually happens, but at least other's are looking to support it.
I agree. `vim-go` is my favorite example; it actually is comprised of a number of daemons that service different facilities. The innovation would be a common interface specification any backend can play with any frontend.
