Show HN: A Language Server Implementation for SystemD Unit Files (github.com)

This is great! There's way too many arcane text file formats (configs, Dockerfiles, workflow definitions etc) without any sort of fast feedback loop on type-safety, documentation etc.

We need more projects like this and if a system is running SystemD, this needs to be enabled and integrated with any LSP-supported editors.

I made a Systemd competitor/aternative https://github.com/andrewbaxter/puteron that uses JSON for everything. The advantage to JSON is you can use a `$schema` key at the top and vscode will do autocompletion, error checking, and (I think) documentation from the jsonschema automatically without needing a custom language server. The power of standards at work!

I was trying to figure out why Systemd decided on their ini-like syntax instead of something like xml or json or whatever. I thought maybe it was some standard that existed at the time, but it does seem to be a custom format unique to systemd...

Would be good to add support for custom units based on generates (e.g. Podman[0]).

[0] https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-systemd.uni...

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This is great, I will definitely try it out in emacs. We use systemd unit files for quite a few things. During holidays I'm planning to uprade my setup to use more lsp and llm! Thanks!

this is great.