hexalang / hexa-vscode-bundle

:hammer_and_wrench: Visual Studio Code support for Hexa @hexalang

Visual Studio Code support for Hexa

Features

Requires Hexa compiler on your host or remote machine

• Syntax highlighting
• Advanced linting via language server
• Providing snippets
• Module outline
• Other IDE features

Web Extension

This extension works in web VSCode environments like github.dev

Install

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=PeyTy.vshexa

Install manually

cd ~/.vscode/extensions
git clone https://github.com/hexalang/hexa-vscode-bundle.git

Configuration

The path to the compiler should be allowed in the setting tab hexa.path

hexa-vscode-bundle's Issues

Add issue templates

Action to publish extension to store

Probably on merging into publish branch as a trigger

Upload to store next release

• README
  • add some screenshots and features list
  • add command cone --how-to-install-from-cli example
• Hexa path and PATH
• Option to disable inline error reporting
  • Fix color of the inline error reporting (brighter red, generate from theme?)
• Option to set linting delay
• Open VSX Registry
• Rename branch to kawaii and update protection rules

Update language server, ensure backward/forward compatibility

• Option to use constant TCP connection instead of REST (btw use this mode by default?)
• Handle in-compiler crash gracefully (this is done, refactor and commit)
• Sidebar outline improvements, take types from Typer when possible?
• Go to definition (Ctrl+Click) / Go to type definition
• Ensure backward/forward compatibility
  • FP-style table of callbacks for kinds of lint reports (for things like hints, in future)
• Highlight words, operators and blocks properly
• More info on hover (var type & mutability, optimization opportunities, etc)
• Refactoring features (like rename class/etc, warn about name clashes (global and within one file cause aliases))
• Fix underline positions (use spans)
• Find all refs
• Dim unused
• Other common LSP features to this list
• Update snippets
• Shallow type check (i.e. don't stop after some type errors)
• Better cache
• Dim unreachable code
• Stop type check when desired lint info is reached (optimization)
• Autorun Hexa server
• Inline dimmed inferred types
  • for i TYPE in e
  • var v TYPE let v TYPE
  • Option to disable this
• Lint of unsaved file
  • Project-related
  • Independent
• Autocomplete improvements
  • Local vars/funcs in current block
  • : Type
  • Fields .HERE
  • Option to insert colons for arg names func(name:, name:) also always show them in autocomplete list

Generate vsix artifact with CI

Test with code --install-extension hexa-vscode.vsix