The Problem
Right now, most people write code in editors that don't give them as much programming assistance as is possible. That's because creating an editor plugin and language analyzer for your favorite language and editor combo is a lot of work. And when you're done, your plugin only supports a single language and editor, and maybe only half the features you wanted.
Because there are no standard cross-language and cross-editor APIs and data formats, it is difficult to reuse your plugin for other languages or editors. So if there are M languages and N editors, we need to build M × N different plugins. That number gets large quickly, and so we suffer from poor developer tools.
Step 1 is to build the language analyzers. Next up, we will build the editor plugins!