mdaniel 15 hours ago

I don't understand why VSCode itself doesn't already have this, since it is silly to have to install 100 extensions to add this behavior to every different possible place that a string literal with an interior language could appear

I also suspect that unlike the JetBrains feature that does this (Language Injection), VSCode doesn't understand the code it just syntax highlights it. Meaning if we take the cited example and change it to the following, would VSCode turn it red?

  example3: | # js
    console.ogl('wat")
9dev 11 hours ago

Oh neat! Finally VS Code can do something IntelliJ has been able to do since decades. We’re so close to discovering why IDEs were a good idea in the first place!

  • IshKebab 10 hours ago

    VSCode is an IDE. It's just a highly modular one, so it doesn't come with everything by default.

    • mdaniel 8 hours ago

      I believe the splitting of hairs is that plugins should build on top of core, solid, helpful primitives, and augment the core platform with esoteric things that the core audience wouldn't care about. That's not this plugin

      It also pragmatically makes for fragmentation in the experience, leading to the same outcome as the current LLM debate: "works great" "not for me"

imcritic 6 hours ago

Who (and in which valid cases) embeds some block of code in a programming language as a value to some key in a YAML file??

IshKebab 10 hours ago

I pity whoever needs this.