tower-lsp VS solargraph

Compare tower-lsp vs solargraph and see what are their differences.

tower-lsp

Language Server Protocol implementation written in Rust (by ebkalderon)
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tower-lsp solargraph
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875 1,835
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5.3 7.4
25 days ago about 1 month ago
Rust Ruby
Apache License 2.0 MIT License
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tower-lsp

Posts with mentions or reviews of tower-lsp. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-28.
  • What's everyone working on this week (22/2023)?
    14 projects | /r/rust | 28 May 2023
    I am using nom / nom_locate to build the parser side because I've done a handful of other projects with it, and I plan to use tower-lsp to hook up the language server side.
  • State of the Ruby language server (LSP) ecosystem / looking for suggestions
    11 projects | /r/ruby | 2 Oct 2022
    I realize this might not be for everyone, but I'm writing it in Rust using Lib-ruby-parser and tower-lsp: two existing libraries that handle a bunch of the heavy lifting for me. I'm more productive in Rust than with Ruby at this point, despite doing Ruby full time for 15 years, plus I really really don't want to have to deal with a slow LSP--that was the whome impetus for this project. I started in the spring, made a bunch of headway, then backtracked to redo the internals to make it easier to handle monkeypatching, overriding/redefining of methods, etc. across your project.
  • Language Server Protocol
    3 projects | /r/Compilers | 21 Jul 2022
    https://github.com/ebkalderon/tower-lsp is a generalized LSP implementation in a lower-level language (Rust) so you may get a better idea by reading through that repo. It seems that the server opens a TCP socket that the client later connects to, but I'm not really sure.
  • how to make a lsp in rust ?
    8 projects | /r/rust | 20 May 2022
    A LSP is just an api implemented to Microsoft's LSP spec. You can implement that API however you wish but something like tower-lsp can do a lot of the heavy lifting for you.
    8 projects | /r/rust | 20 May 2022
    Mine all use [tower-lsp](https://github.com/ebkalderon/tower-lsp/) for the LSP protocol stuff, and then either [Tree-sitter](https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter) or [Nom](https://github.com/Geal/nom). If I do another I'll probably try [Chumsky](https://github.com/zesterer/chumsky) which combines some of the advantages of both.
  • tower-lsp 0.16.0 — Lightweight framework for building LSP servers
    2 projects | /r/rust | 11 Mar 2022

solargraph

Posts with mentions or reviews of solargraph. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-24.
  • Nice Ruby IDEs
    2 projects | /r/ruby | 24 Mar 2023
    Solagraph: https://solargraph.org
  • Using SyntaxSuggest with Solargraph LSP!
    3 projects | /r/ruby | 28 Dec 2022
    Yay! For those who don’t know solargraph provides a language server protocol (LSP) for Ruby so that your IDE (like vscode) can know more about the code you’re writing https://solargraph.org/.
  • Ruby Delights Built into the Language: No Gems Required
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Dec 2022
    If you're looking for IDE-level language assistance, I can't help you, but since you mentioned nvim: I use regular vim with CoC / Conquer of Completion (vim plugin; LSP server, may not strictly be necessary for nvim), Solargraph (Ruby Gem; language server), and Rubocop (also a Gem) for linting. I previously/still use ALE (vim plugin; Asynchronous Lint Engine) because I haven't gotten CoC+Solargraph to play nice with Rubocop, probably due to something silly.

    https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim

    https://solargraph.org/

    https://rubocop.org/

    https://github.com/dense-analysis/ale

    My impression with all of this running under MacVim... it's plenty responsive. It can take a while for Solargraph to index everything on startup if you're working in a big project; once it loads, it's snappy. (There's probably a way to cache that startup scan.)

  • I need help with lsp-mode setup
    2 projects | /r/emacs | 17 Nov 2022
    I am trying to use lsp-mode for ruby via solargraph and for Rails era templates using web-mode via lsp-tailwindcss and both seems to kinda sorta work but neither one is really giving me all the features that I see that others have.
  • State of the Ruby language server (LSP) ecosystem / looking for suggestions
    11 projects | /r/ruby | 2 Oct 2022
    https://github.com/castwide/solargraph Seems to be the most mature/developed one. Slow on my system, bad documentation. Language docs are shipped as "cores" you imperatively download that float around in your home directory; this is messy and prone to failure. Doesn't have any docs for versions of ruby past 2.7.
  • Linting and Auto-formatting Ruby Code With RuboCop
    12 projects | dev.to | 29 Jun 2022
    If you use Vim or Neovim, you can display RuboCop's diagnostics through coc.nvim. You need to install the Solargraph language server (gem install solargraph), followed by the coc-solargraph extension (:CocInstall coc-solargraph). Afterwards, configure your coc-settings.json file as shown below:
  • anyone here using neovim for ruby on rails projects?
    10 projects | /r/neovim | 14 Jun 2022
    The builtin LSP works well with solargraph to provide autocompletion.
  • Sorbet: Stripe's Type Checker for Ruby
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Mar 2022
    Sorbet and/or RBS seems like they may be the future given how popular typescript is with JS programmers these days. There are some other projects that assist programmers without relying on formal type definitions in the source or shadow typing files:

    Solargraph combines inference and insight from YARD docs (standard for many gems, plus Castwide has written more YARD for the standard library) to make some pretty good guesses. Crucially it has plugins that add the insights from popular gems with static analysis (e.g. reek, rubocop). I maintain solargraph-rails, which parses your Ruby to make guesses about (surprise) Rails.

    The typeprof gem can help IDE plugins make typing guesses based on your tests. This project is interesting to me because it's going into Ruby 3.1 so I think it reflects awareness from the core ruby team that many programmers are not ready to add types to their code.

    solargraph: https://github.com/castwide/solargraph

  • The Why and How of Yardoc
    6 projects | dev.to | 17 Mar 2022
    In Ruby’s case, the language server is Solargraph; which parses the YARD documentation to provide the details. For Emacs, I’m using the eglot.el package to provide Language Server Protocol support. Others in Emacs use lsp-mode.el. The Solargraph homepage has a supported editors section that provides guidance on integrating Solargraph with VSCode, Atom, Sublime Text, Eclipse, Vim, and Emacs.
  • Dev tools like language server, linting and typing
    3 projects | /r/rails | 8 Jan 2022

What are some alternatives?

When comparing tower-lsp and solargraph you can also consider the following projects:

ruby-lsp - An opinionated language server for Ruby

sorbet - A fast, powerful type checker designed for Ruby

steep - Static type checker for Ruby

vscode-ruby - Provides Ruby language and debugging support for Visual Studio Code

tower - async fn(Request) -> Result<Response, Error>

kakoune-lsp - Kakoune Language Server Protocol Client

rust-analyzer - A Rust compiler front-end for IDEs

Roda - Routing Tree Web Toolkit

tree-sitter - An incremental parsing system for programming tools

TypeORM - ORM for TypeScript and JavaScript. Supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, SQLite, MS SQL Server, Oracle, SAP Hana, WebSQL databases. Works in NodeJS, Browser, Ionic, Cordova and Electron platforms.

vscode-ruby-debug - A Ruby debugger.

react-relay - Relay is a JavaScript framework for building data-driven React applications.