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Programming · by Noah Miller · 2026-10-27

Microsoft's Type Server Protocol: LSP but specifically for type checkers

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The Pylance team published a TSP spec so type information can be served separately from the language server. Could this finally let different Python type checkers plug into the same editor features?

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Jiho Lee · 10 likes

anything that reduces the pyright vs mypy vs whatever fragmentation is good in my book

Arif Hasan · 0 likes

so a protocol for the server that talks to the server that talks to the editor. we love layers

Bianca Santos · 11 likes

it's servers all the way down