No, it's merely a work-around for two very distinct and self-inflicted problems:
- The pain of exposing language-native compiler/language AST and indexing APIs to a JavaScript IDE.
- RMS' inability to accept that GCC might need to expose an AST to external consumers, and his paranoia regarding how that might undermine his GPL-everywhere ideals.
Using JSON for local IPC -- and requiring IDE language support to funnel itself across that high-overhead IPC connection -- is fey.
- The pain of exposing language-native compiler/language AST and indexing APIs to a JavaScript IDE.
- RMS' inability to accept that GCC might need to expose an AST to external consumers, and his paranoia regarding how that might undermine his GPL-everywhere ideals.
Using JSON for local IPC -- and requiring IDE language support to funnel itself across that high-overhead IPC connection -- is fey.