# Eglot

16 Hacker News commenters recommended Eglot and 9 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 8 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Built into Emacs with good defaults and less setup than lsp-mode, but critics say it will not install language servers and can be slow.

## Why people recommend it

- Built into Emacs (5 comments): "a lot of what has brought more energy into Emacs world recently is treesit and eglot becoming widely available in distributions" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48899782)) "mainly due to the built-in eglot. You need a lot less elisp code than you used to" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45942712)) "Eglot is built in and has a good set of default for current servers." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46058817))
- Works well out of the box (4 comments): "Tree-sitter support is quite smooth now, with automatic grammar installation." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50273918)) "Eglot is built in and has a good set of default for current servers." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46058817)) "Everything mostly worked out of the box." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47321659))
- Less setup and configuration (4 comments): "mainly due to the built-in eglot. You need a lot less elisp code than you used to" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45942712)) "It does enough for me, and the configuration is manageable." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437484)) "It requires less setup than lsp-mode." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47320972))
- Fast enough and sufficient for needs (2 comments): "fast enough without it, even on large projects" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47867920)) "it's been completely sufficient for my needs" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437632))

## What people warn about

- Does not help set up servers (3 comments): "Eglot won't help you get your system ready for LSP work, it will only avail itself if what's there." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49467510)) "Eglot will prompt and show nothing of meaningful assistance beyond a name" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49468780)) "will prompt and show nothing of meaningful assistance beyond a name" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49477014))
- Slow, timeouts, blocking pauses (3 comments): "it's simply not ready for the masses. I frequently get timeouts" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49470099)) "painful blocking pauses when using eglot + rust-analyzer" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46506712)) "eglot has performance issues." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46063901))
- Lsp-mode seen as better (2 comments): "lsp-mode supports DAP whilst the now-built-in Eglot doesn’t" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45787645)) "I like experience better than eglot" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45785826))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Evil mode for Emacs](https://hackerapproved.com/p/evil-mode.md): 39 recommend
- [TRAMP for Emacs](https://hackerapproved.com/p/tramp.md): 25 recommend
- [SLIME](https://hackerapproved.com/p/slime.md): 19 recommend
- [Vertico](https://hackerapproved.com/p/vertico.md): 18 recommend
- [Consult (Emacs package)](https://hackerapproved.com/p/consult.md): 16 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Eglot", https://hackerapproved.com/p/eglot/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).