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LSP and JSON

I've taken on the challenge of writing an LSP for BlitzMax NG to help with the integration of the vs-code extension. 

For those who don't know what an LSP is; it is simply a communications component that is used by any IDE to obtain information regarding your source code. It then uses this information to create outline views, hover, help and diagnostics etc.

Rather than use the BlitzMax JSON module, I decided to write a JSON parser specifically for this application that gives me a little more control to transpose JSON directly into BlitzMax Types. I will publish this on GitHub shortly.

With the JSON module almost complete, the LSP application can now read/write to/from StdIO and I'm currently working on getting the "initialize" and "shutdown" event handlers operational.

Watch this space.

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