Integrating Developer Experiences - Build Server Protocol and beyond

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Build Server Protocol (BSP) standardizes IDE↔build-tool communication so IntelliJ can import any BSP-enabled build by reading a dropped config and launching a server. Implementation uses bloop and exports compile/test targets, streams progress and diagnostics (example: Akka module compile showing ~40s phases), and handles compile/test/run requests. Current limits: primarily Scala targets, tricky mapping of BSP targets to IntelliJ modules and shared-source/cross‑compile workarounds. Protocol v2.0 is stable and IntelliJ 2019.3 includes practical BSP support.

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1. 0:00Introduction to IDE evolution
2. 1:58Need for better tool integration
3. 6:20Language Server Protocol overview
4. 9:29Build Server Protocol introduction
5. 13:49BSP protocol details
6. 17:12BSP in IntelliJ Scala plugin
7. 19:15Challenges in BSP mapping
8. 22:22BSP ecosystem and tools
9. 24:07Future of BSP development
10. 26:42Protocol adoption and call to action

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