Buf is proud to announce the first fully-featured, production-grade LSP server for Protobuf. The Language Server Protocol is the standard API for integrating language support into your favorite IDE or text editor, such as VSCode, IntelliJ, or Neovim. An LSP server provides the smarts that power go to definition, code completion, finding references, and semantics-aware syntax highlighting. Before today, Protobuf lacked the same LSP support other major programming languages enjoy. We don’t want to overstate our own work, but this is a game-changer for Protobuf development : Protobuf now has modern IDE support for the first time, all powered by the Buf CLI . At Buf, we believe that Protobuf is the best schema language, thanks to its established ecosystem of libraries and tools. Protobuf shouldn’t just be the smart choice; it should be the easiest choice too.…