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I have made an interpreted language using python. It works fine inside of the terminal but I'm struggling to find any resources/documentation on how to create an extension that can run it inside of the VS code IDE. I also would like to implement syntax highlighting for my language. The extension that I want to make would be similar to the "Python" VS code extension. (I AM NOT ASKING FOR RECOMMENDATIONS!)

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  • you are running an interpreter inside an interpreter, do you have some performance left? Read up on writing a language extension. – rioV8 Jun 23 '20 at 01:03
  • I have read up on a language extensions but running code is poorly documented. Yes I have performance, in fact my language is actually pretty fast for being dual interpreted. Around the same speed as python itself. I have optimized it. – Plas_Dev168 Jun 23 '20 at 01:07
  • you don't run it inside VSC, and VSC is NOT an IDE, it is an editor with benefits. VSC just generates a terminal command and executes it in the integrated terminal. If you want to be able to debug your code in VSC you have to support the Debugger API – rioV8 Jun 23 '20 at 01:11
  • How would I do that, and do you have any suggestions for another IDE to do this in? – Plas_Dev168 Jun 23 '20 at 01:14
  • supporting the Debugger API is quite some work but it is documented in the VSC docs. But you have to write a debugger for your language. – rioV8 Jun 23 '20 at 01:17
  • The documentation on it is pretty confusing and very strange. Also will the debugger run the code? – Plas_Dev168 Jun 23 '20 at 01:25
  • The docs are kinda very referential but it always helps to see the code of similar extensions. Check this "live extension" https://github.com/xirider/livecode – tHeSiD Jun 23 '20 at 01:31

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Here is the Microsoft documentation on how to build, debug and publish a Visual Studio Code Extension. I know you said Visual Studio Code, but you also said IDE, so I included this link to the Visual Studio IDE Extension in case you actually meant that instead of code.

Here is a step by step VS Code youtube tutorial from good teacher, Traversy.

Congrats on your project, and Good luck.

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