Support running in Electron as Node aka support running in Node 19+

[TylerLeonhardt]

Blocked on tree-sitter/tree-sitter-typescript#244

Tracks bumping our version of tree-sitter to a version that supports running in Node 19+

Workaround: Run @vscode/l10n-dev in Node 18 or lower. Btw, VS Code extensions still run in Node 16 as of today, so it's best to develop extensions using the same version...

[PF4Public]

So the day has come! Now that my distribution updated nodejs to 20 I can no longer build vscode.

[darkbasic]

:(

[PF4Public]

My observations so far:

• ✔️ net-libs/nodejs-18.16.0 OK
• ❌ net-libs/nodejs-20.2.0 FAIL
• ❌ ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE=1 electron-22 FAIL
• ❌ ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE=1 electron-24 FAIL
• ✔️ ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE=1 electron-25 OK

[TylerLeonhardt]

@PF4Public I'd recommend using nvm or similar to get a different node version until this is sorted.

[PF4Public]

@TylerLeonhardt Thank you for suggestion. It might be usable if I were to build vscode locally, but unfortunately it might be overly complicated to make it work under package manager, so I'd rather have a generic solution.

Surprisingly enough I could build vscode with electron-25 acting as node. Weird, but OK :)

PS: localizations work as expected :)