Chris Kipp

So thinking about this some more. When a BSP initialize request comes in, could we just detect the `displayName` and if it's `Metals`, then enable semanticdb?

> It would be very nice, if we could produce semanticDB data in a separate process, which is less resource intensive as full compilation. If I'm understanding the code right:...

> As described in the PR, this is a not yet finished experiment whether this works at all. Ha, sorry some of my comments were probably premature 😆 I just...

Awesome to see progress on this! I'm testing right now and I'll drop some things in here as I come across them. The first thing I notice is that something...

 Amazing, it's finding the SemanticDB and navigation is working :D > I fixed the issue with failed compilation in mill-build. Looks like Metals is trying to...

> @ckipp01 Is there already some ticket in Metals that list or tracks the changes needed to support this new way of providing SemanticDB data in Mill? Not yet. I'll...

> I'd like to create / make sure that the referenced template under com-lihaoyi organization exists. When you do this we can also probably sunset https://github.com/scalameta/mill-scala-seed.g8 which we created so...

Ah true, sorry I misread that then. In that case, do you think this should stay here or be better transferred to scalameta?

Thought I'd pipe in here as well after my comment in https://github.com/scalameta/metals-feature-requests/issues/91. I'd love to get kak documented and "supported" with Metals, so I've gone ahead and started to test...

Quick update that is relevant to this. We are just about to release a new version of Metals, and this newest version will be able to be configured pretty much...