lsp-mode VS dap-mode

Compare lsp-mode vs dap-mode and see what are their differences.

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lsp-mode dap-mode
118 22
4,653 1,255
0.7% 1.1%
9.3 6.4
2 days ago 10 days ago
Emacs Lisp Emacs Lisp
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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lsp-mode

Posts with mentions or reviews of lsp-mode. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-21.
  • lsp-mode: Emacs client/library for the Language Server Protocol
    1 project | /r/planetemacs | 15 Oct 2023
  • lsp-keymap-prefix not working
    1 project | /r/emacs | 22 Mar 2023
    I also tried to the solutions suggested ![here](https://github.com/emacs-lsp/lsp-mode/issues/1532) and ![here](https://github.com/emacs-lsp/lsp-mode/issues/1672), but nothing worked. I moved the (setq lsp-keymap-...) line outside (and before) use-package. I also used :config (define-key lsp-load-map...) in my use-package block. But none of them worked.
  • Help getting the yaml language server working with eglot
    3 projects | /r/emacs | 21 Mar 2023
    Not sure how much this might help, but lsp-mode has lsp-yaml-select-buffer-schema and lsp-yaml-set-buffer-schema commands to pick schema from a list or set from a URI. Checking the source of them might give some hints about how the same could be implemented in eglot?
  • What LaTeX setup do you use?
    7 projects | /r/emacs | 8 Mar 2023
    Beyond that you might as well embrace the suck and install autex with a language server: https://emacs-lsp.github.io/lsp-mode/
  • Emacs bankruptcy
    17 projects | /r/emacs | 3 Mar 2023
    Smart completion these days is done primarily through LSP. eglot is fairly minimal but built-in as of 29, also available via GNU Elpa. lsp-mode is another option with more integrations and a bit more fleshed out.
  • The bottom emoji breaks rust-analyzer
    7 projects | /r/rust | 13 Feb 2023
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Feb 2023
  • Setting up a fundraiser for multi-threaded Emacs, any thoughts on this?
    7 projects | /r/emacs | 4 Feb 2023
    Are you running emacs-29? It has numerous speed-ups compared to emacs-28 and older versions, many of them coded by Mattias Engdegård, e.g. commit def6fa4246. I have a fresh build of emacs-29 running on Linux and a new mac with an M1 CPU, and it's stupid fast. I don't use the native-comp feature. I rarely notice any hesitation or slowness. I don't use Elpy. I do use lsp mode.
  • Newbie here! Need Help!
    6 projects | /r/emacs | 29 Jan 2023
    Since you are doing code development, the first things to go for would be setting up your emacs packaging (installing use-package and melpa (use-package's documentation covers this) so you have more packages to choose from (do be careful to not just pick things willy nilly but research them a bit first)) and then setting up lsp-mode. lsp-mode lets you use LSP servers for the specific programming languages you work with in a somewhat unified fashion. You then need to install and setup the LSP servers for the languages you use, and possibly install language specific Emacs packages as support (note, Emacs has builtin functionality for many).
  • Emacs 29: Install Tree-Sitter parser modules with a minor mode
    3 projects | /r/emacs | 26 Dec 2022
    And first of all, I'm trying to understand, how is it connected to https://github.com/emacs-lsp/lsp-mode? I'm sure, that existed lsp implementations already parse source code. Why TreeSitter?

dap-mode

Posts with mentions or reviews of dap-mode. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-03.
  • GNU Debugger "GDB" Adds Support For Microsoft's Debug Adapter Protocol
    2 projects | /r/emacs | 3 Mar 2023
    GDB with gdb -i dap allows you to debug any language that GDB can debug from within Emacs' dap-mode: https://github.com/emacs-lsp/dap-mode
  • Eglot and debugging python
    2 projects | /r/emacs | 16 Feb 2023
    lsp's brother. One search away. https://github.com/emacs-lsp/dap-mode
  • How to debug go tests with lsp and dap mode?
    2 projects | /r/emacs | 8 Jan 2023
    Debug template for go subtest was just added: https://github.com/emacs-lsp/dap-mode/pull/704/
  • Emacs as IDE
    2 projects | /r/emacs | 18 Dec 2022
    Debugging (kind of an IDE feature) is a little harder. Out of the box, Emacs can at least debug emacs-lisp (with built-in features) and C (via gdb integration). Beyond that, take a look at dap-mode for other language options. Similarly, take a look at lsp-mode or eglot for code completion, more advanced linting, etc.
  • Eglot has landed on master: Emacs now has a built-in LSP client
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Oct 2022
    At least for web development I believe eglot is strictly worse. It does not support running multiple servers (e.g. tsserver and eslint-ls) (https://github.com/joaotavora/eglot/issues/976) which is supported by lsp-mode and neovim's built-in lsp client. Also, it does not have any equivalent to dap-mode which is lsp-mode only. Although worth noting dap-mode is currently useless for js (https://github.com/emacs-lsp/dap-mode/issues/369).
  • EGlot as LSP - Interface & DAP
    3 projects | /r/emacs | 13 Oct 2022
    Hi, as it seems EGlot will receive the blessing of inclusion into vanilla Emacs. That makes me wonder how I am supposed to use dap-mode at it swaps in lsp-mode as a dependency.
  • Debugging GameBoy Advance (GBA) programs/games in Emacs
    7 projects | dev.to | 11 Oct 2022
    We will use dap-mode with the dap-gdb-lldb option here. Under the hood, it uses the debug adapter from the Native Debug VSCode extension. Configuring it is described on the dap-mode webpages. After we have configured dap-mode, we could in theory reuse the launch.json configurations from the VSCode related articles above. That will require that you also use lsp-mode, as dap-launch depends on the lsp-workspace-root function and will not resolve when lsp-mode is not used. I don't use lsp-mode with C (company-clang and company-c-headers provide what I need), so the next logical solution would be to create a debug template ourselves:
  • John Carmack: Best Programming Setup and IDE – Lex Fridman Podcast Clips
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Aug 2022
    Hmm it does seem like Emacs is growing support for the Debug Adapter Protocol (DAP), the LSP-alike convention that allows language developers to build language-specific debuggers that tie into the VSCode UI: https://github.com/emacs-lsp/dap-mode
  • Programming in Python
    2 projects | /r/emacs | 24 Jul 2022
    So, what do you need: - Language server for Python (lsp and lsp-ui) Use lsp-mode it's more reach with features at the moment https://emacs-lsp.github.io/lsp-mode/page/installation/ - Real-time program debugging (dap-mode) https://github.com/emacs-lsp/dap-mode
  • lsp-mode vs eglot
    4 projects | /r/emacs | 29 Mar 2022
    Seems like too much work and the issue has been closed and not reopened since 2018 sadly. It looks like it won't be happening any time soon. https://github.com/emacs-lsp/dap-mode/issues/2

What are some alternatives?

When comparing lsp-mode and dap-mode you can also consider the following projects:

eglot - A client for Language Server Protocol servers

tide - Tide - TypeScript Interactive Development Environment for Emacs

realgud - The Grand "Cathedral" Debugger rewrite

ctags - A maintained ctags implementation

doom-emacs - An Emacs framework for the stubborn martian hacker [Moved to: https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs]

ANTLR - ANTLR (ANother Tool for Language Recognition) is a powerful parser generator for reading, processing, executing, or translating structured text or binary files.

pdb-cheatsheet - A cheatsheet for the Python Debugger (pdb)

company-lsp - Company completion backend for lsp-mode

code-debug - Native debugging for VSCode

vscode-intelephense - PHP intellisense for Visual Studio Code

nvim-lspconfig - Quickstart configs for Nvim LSP