Dragon Language Support for VS Code
Welcome to the official Visual Studio Code extension for the Dragon programming language! This extension provides a first-class developer experience for writing, editing, and executing Dragon scripts natively within VS Code.
Features
- Syntax Highlighting: Beautiful, highly-accurate colorization for all Dragon keywords, built-in functions, variables, operators, and types.
- IntelliSense: Smart autocompletion for Dragon's core modules (e.g.,
math, mem, ffi, os, json) and built-in global functions (e.g., showln, len, typeof).
- Hover Documentation: Hover over built-in functions and modules to see instant inline documentation and usage definitions.
- Smart Snippets: Type shortcuts like
func, class, or for and press Tab to instantly generate boilerplate code structures.
- Integrated Execution: Click the native Run Button (▶) in the editor title bar, or use the
Dragon: Run Script command to instantly execute your .dgn files inside a VS Code terminal.
Requirements
To use the integrated "Run" feature, you must have the Dragon (dragon.exe or dragon binary) installed and added to your system's environment PATH variable.
If the dragon.exe is not in your PATH, the syntax highlighting and IntelliSense will still work perfectly, but the Run button will fail to find the executable.
Release Notes
1.0.4
- Syntax Highlighting Enhancements: Added robust highlighting for string interpolation (
`${...}`), raw strings, scientific notation, compound operators, null coalescing (??), and new keywords (async, await, augment).
- Advanced IntelliSense: Added auto-complete for all new v1.0.4 standard library modules (
crypto, zip), built-ins (format), and a new dedicated category for common methods (e.g., reduce, find, then, catch).
- Rich Hover Documentation: Overhauled hover tooltips with detailed Markdown descriptions, syntax signatures, and explanations for standard modules and built-in functions.
- Expanded Snippets: Added quick-insert snippets for Async Functions, Lambdas/Arrow Functions, Type Augmentation, Class Inheritance, Try/Catch blocks, and String Formatting.
- Editor Experience: Added auto-closing support for backticks (
`), native colorized bracket pairs, and #region / #endregion code folding.
1.0.2
- Added Syntax Highlighting for
.dgn files.
- Added standard library IntelliSense and snippets.
- Added native run command integration.
Enjoy building with Dragon!
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