I don't understand why VSCode itself doesn't already have this, since it is silly to have to install 100 extensions to add this behavior to every different possible place that a string literal with an interior language could appear
I also suspect that unlike the JetBrains feature that does this (Language Injection), VSCode doesn't understand the code it just syntax highlights it. Meaning if we take the cited example and change it to the following, would VSCode turn it red?
Oh neat! Finally VS Code can do something IntelliJ has been able to do since decades. We’re so close to discovering why IDEs were a good idea in the first place!
I don’t know what you’re talking about, but I prefer a tool that I can customize to my liking instead of being told by a random corporation how I should like it.
I believe the splitting of hairs is that plugins should build on top of core, solid, helpful primitives, and augment the core platform with esoteric things that the core audience wouldn't care about. That's not this plugin
It also pragmatically makes for fragmentation in the experience, leading to the same outcome as the current LLM debate: "works great" "not for me"
That is not an argument. The same implementation could be used to highlight SQL queries in arbitrary code, for example. What you want is the general ability to have regions of nested code in a file that use a different language than the rest of the file.
I don't understand why VSCode itself doesn't already have this, since it is silly to have to install 100 extensions to add this behavior to every different possible place that a string literal with an interior language could appear
I also suspect that unlike the JetBrains feature that does this (Language Injection), VSCode doesn't understand the code it just syntax highlights it. Meaning if we take the cited example and change it to the following, would VSCode turn it red?
Oh neat! Finally VS Code can do something IntelliJ has been able to do since decades. We’re so close to discovering why IDEs were a good idea in the first place!
Why an IDE? Vim can do such things just fine.
Because I prefer an interface that isn't constrained to 70 year old typewriter conventions, thank you very much.
I don’t know what you’re talking about, but I prefer a tool that I can customize to my liking instead of being told by a random corporation how I should like it.
VSCode is an IDE. It's just a highly modular one, so it doesn't come with everything by default.
I believe the splitting of hairs is that plugins should build on top of core, solid, helpful primitives, and augment the core platform with esoteric things that the core audience wouldn't care about. That's not this plugin
It also pragmatically makes for fragmentation in the experience, leading to the same outcome as the current LLM debate: "works great" "not for me"
> augment the core platform with esoteric things that the core audience wouldn't care about. That's not this plugin
Seems like it is to me. Storing code inside yaml is pretty obviously a terrible idea and I haven't seen many systems do it (beyond Bash at least).
That is not an argument. The same implementation could be used to highlight SQL queries in arbitrary code, for example. What you want is the general ability to have regions of nested code in a file that use a different language than the rest of the file.
Who (and in which valid cases) embeds some block of code in a programming language as a value to some key in a YAML file??
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Roo code too
I pity whoever needs this.