PerlNavigator VS Perl-LanguageServer

What I'd like to see (unrelated to a Perl 7 or 8) is continued improvement of support for code editors. I've been using https://github.com/bscan/PerlNavigator and it's a real pleasure. I know there are other language servers for Perl as well. It's encouraging to see people working on these tools.

PerlNavigator is by far the best languageserver implementation for VSCode (and other editors)

No problem. I just added support for "method" and "fun" whenever "use Function::Parameters" is present in a file. This include syntax highlighting, outline view, and go-to definition. Commit is here: https://github.com/bscan/PerlNavigator/commit/10938c6d50eb342e1989d51a09b4fba8d023df57

"perl": { "command": ["node", "/home/alberto/.local/share/nvim/lsp_servers/perlnavigator/node_modules/perlnavigator-server/out/server.js","--stdio"], "url": "https://github.com/bscan/PerlNavigator", "selector": "source.perl", "highlightingModeRegex": "^Perl$", "settings": { "perlnavigator": { "perlPath": "/usr/bin/perl", "enableWarnings": true, "perltidyProfile": "/home/alberto/.perltidyrc", "perlcriticProfile": "/home/alberto/.perlcriticrc", "perlcriticEnabled": true } } }

I normally use Emacs. I recently read about this tool that integrates with many editors and was hacked during the latest YAPC. I haven't used it but it looks interesting.

Perl Navigator - Language Server for Perl

There are at least three decent language servers for Perl. I do not run Windows and I am not familiar with it, but I believe the simplest language server to install on Windows is probably perlnavigator. You can also look at PLS. Both of these have VSCode extensions you can download. I don't use VSCode and you don't say what editor you are using, but I know a lot of people use VSCode. Both of these have good support in Neovim if you use that.

Check out this link: https://github.com/richterger/Perl-LanguageServer/issues/11.

Trying to determine if it's possible to make Perl::LanguageServer backwards compatible with perl version 5.16.

The big one for me is that Perl::LanguageServer doesn't support auto-completion.

In VSCodium the Open VSX registry is used which doesn't yet include the perl extensions.

I tried to install Perl::LanguageServer on Windows 10, but the dependency IO::AIO fails to install, more information here: Language Server dependency IO::AIO installation is failing on Windows 10