On 10/16/24 5:29 PM, Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal wrote:
On Oct 16, 2024 at 9:18:01 PM, Nikolay Nikolov via fpc-pascal
<fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
I also have some experience from my day job on making a VS Code
extension for the Nim language (you can see my commits in the Nim
language server here
https://github.com/nim-lang/langserver/graphs/contributors and for
the Nim VS code extension here
https://github.com/nim-lang/vscode-nim) and I can definitely say VS
Code is horrible crap. It's buggy as hell, new versions break API
compatibility all the time and it makes it look like it's your
language extension's fault.
Not my experience. I prefer the editor in Sublime Text but VSCode is a
good debugger which works with LLDB and Pascal. VSCode is wildly
popular as well so FPC is missing out on new users by not having this
as option. Maybe some packages you used were the culprit? They have a
monthly update cycle too so I would think they catch these things.
I don't know, it could be the Nim to JS compiler, or the fact that the
previous plugin developer didn't use the LSP protocol, but direct
integration instead. But I don't like the whole idea of an IDE, written
in JavaScript. It's horribly bloated and difficult to debug.
The LSP protocol is fine, though. I like the idea, it allows integration
with many different IDEs and editors. Sublime Text is just one example,
there are many people who use Vim, Neovim, Emacs, Helix and many others.
I also think it's a nice and quick way to improve the console IDE by
adding an LSP client. But I have a huge backlog of things to do, so I
haven't started on this, yet.
When I learn a new compiler these days I download the installer, run
it, then check VSCode or Sublime Text for extensions to install in one
click. If that doesn't work I probably just give up because I idon’t
have time to be playing around and there’s myriad of new languages to
play around with these days.
Yeah, it's tempting with its store of extensions. Too bad most of it is
crap. And it's not fully open source. Sorry, I use it at work, and just
don't like it. Anyhow, there's nothing wrong in developing an VS Code
plugin for Pascal. Anybody interested can try to do that. Most of the
work is probably fixing the LSP server, as it does most of the work.
This way, the extension itself can be kept minimal.
Best regards,
Nikolay
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