Building a syntax highlighting extension for VS Code

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Zed

Now, fast forward to last year's Rails World conference that I was a lucky attendee of. What a breeze of fresh air! Among the many many inspiring people, talks and presentations, I noticed one thing: most people use VS Code, some use Vim but – more importantly – a lot of people tweak their editor / IDE almost as routinely as they tweak the code they work on professionally! And I thought: I want that too, how come I've lost this mindset here? I’ve taken for granted that I can tweak every imaginable aspect of my Linux OS as well as the Gnome environment so why not my IDE – the program that I literary spend most hours a day in? That was the final nudge for me to try to switch to something – anything really – that would be feasible for me to tweak and that’s how I ended up in VS Code. I’m not saying this will be my final IDE destination (looking at you Zed, Fleet or perhaps even Vim) but I know I want to stay closer to where a more active developer community around the editor is.

#Productivity #Code Editor #Text Editors 8 social mentions

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rubular

As a ruby developer, I was happy to find that VS Code / TextMate grammar files use the same regular expression engine called Oniguruma as ruby itself. Thus, I could be sure that when trying my regular expressions in my favorite online regex tool, rubular.com, there would be no inconsistencies due to the engine inner workings.

#Regular Expressions #Programming Tools #Development 35 social mentions

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Haml

First of all, I like Slim. I like the beauty and cleanness of Slim templates, to me they are way more readable than regular ERB templates and I think they fit in the ruby/Rails ecosystem very well. Slim is a close cousin to Haml, without the ugly percent characters, haha. I've used Slim exclusively in my projects since about 2016.

#Javascript UI Libraries #Development #Programming 17 social mentions