ANTLRWorks2 Visual Studio Code Extension

[ElemarJR]

What about move ANTLRWorks2 to Visual Studio Code?

[JunielKatarn]

Sounds awesome, but I don't think there is enough man-power for this effort.

[sharwell]

It's an interesting idea for sure. @ElemarJR I'm curious, what language would the code need to be written in for it to work in Visual Studio Code?

📝 This project relies on customizations in my optimized fork of the main ANTLR 4 project. Among other things, the internal prediction algorithm in my fork was rewritten almost from scratch. Currently there are versions of the Java and C# runtime available which are based on this work, but the other ANTLR 4 targets are based on the original ANTLR 4 distribution. If Visual Studio Code requires JavaScript code, the existing JavaScript runtime for ANTLR 4 could not be used; a new one would need to be written based on my fork in order to port the code completion algorithms over from ANTLRWorks 2.

[ghost]

bad idea, useless work

[sharwell]

@Feb21 I'm curious what makes it a bad idea. If you have thoughts or experience in the area and know I'm in for trouble on that path let me know. :)