Have you wrote a VSCode extension before? What did you love? What did you hate?

@_douges Worst part is all the infra to publish to and build for vscode. Last time I played around this space was ~3 years ago could be better now 🤞

@_douges cc @judehunterdev

@_douges Hate: You can't use ESM code. Love: APIs don't change in breaking ways every other release like @intellijidea

@_douges adding little features feels really rewarding their CLI, vsce, is horrible (doesn't support symlink to you have to bundle everything to use pnpm but you can't bundle everything, e.g esbuild itself, so you have to alias to esbuild-wasm an do weird stuff as a workaround)

@_douges It is pretty good overall. If you want to use token info, there is no API to access it (ie what is the type of token at a given document position) even though given a textmate config, it can highlight it fine. Only way around this was running a copy of the parser in the extension