Brainfuck IDE — VS Code Extension

Brainfuck development environment for VS Code.

Features

Syntax Highlighting

• Color-coded operators: loops, pointer moves, arithmetic, I/O
• Comments (any non-BF character) rendered as comments

Intellisense & Hover

• Hover any operator to see what it does + C equivalent
• Auto-complete common patterns: [-], [->+<], ,[.,] and more
• Bracket auto-close for [

Diagnostics (inline errors)

• Red squiggles on unmatched [ or ]
• Hints on long literal sequences that could use loops

Run & Debug

• F5 — Run current file, output in Output panel
• Ctrl+F5 — Run with custom input
• Ctrl+Shift+T — Show live tape visualizer in split pane
• Tape visualizer shows all cell values, ASCII characters, and current pointer

Code Actions

• Right-click → Explain Selection — analyze selected code (op counts, net effects, pattern recognition)
• Right-click → Optimize Program — remove no-op sequences like +-, <>, []

Snippets

Type these prefixes and hit Tab: | Prefix | Inserts | |--------|---------| | zero | [-] | | move | [->+<] | | copy | non-destructive copy | | loop | loop N times | | cat | ,[.,] | | hello | Hello World | | newline | print \n | | add | add two cells |

Supported File Extensions

.bf, .b (Might not work due to some annoying VSCode issues)