Road-map

[renehiemstra]

Interesting project! I am looking to use/implement/contribute to something like this.

It seems not all the logic is implemented yet. Is that correct? Do you have a roadmap?

There are several other related projects

• https://github.com/georgewfraser/vscode-tree-sitter
• https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-anycode
• https://github.com/EvgeniyPeshkov/syntax-highlighter

[AlecGhost]

Hello there. I'm delighted to hear that you are interested in the project.
I have no clear roadmap yet, so feel free to request and implement features, that you are interested in.
I would lay out the main goals as follows:

• Provide a language-independent platform, to integrate Tree-sitter-based features into VSCode.
• Be an easy-to-use stepping stone for custom/new/small programming languages or DSLs.
• Make embedding/injecting languages into other languages easier.

These goals should also set it apart from the related projects that you mentioned. Specifically, I don't plan on shipping grammars/parsers for established languages with this extension. (Only possibly as examples or tests.)

The next tasks would be the following (I'll create issues for those in the upcoming days):

• Implement the injection rules described in the Tree-sitter docs. I couldn't find a real spec, so I'm not sure how exactly they need to be implemented. But the most important features should be dynamic language injection (opposed to the current @language syntax) and combining the queries instead of performing analysis on each separately.
• Add a configuration option to exclude languages with parsers from the top-level semantic token provider. E. g. I want to inject a language, but I don't want to highlight the files that are only of that language.
• Provide other features than highlighting (e. g. folding).
• Investigate whether the "hacks" described in the documentation are really necessary or if they can be covered by proper VSCode APIs.

[AlecGhost]

Well, its rather been months than days, but here are a few issues regarding the next tasks I mentioned.

• Implement language injection spec #2
• Injection-only language configs #3
• Support folding #4
• Investigate whether extension hacks can be avoided #5