BLBX for Visual Studio Code

Syntax highlighting for .bx files, including comments, multiline strings and escapes, numbers, booleans, null, imports, classes, interfaces, function names, callback control flow, and BLBX operators. Also provides comment toggling, bracket matching, and automatic bracket and quote closing.

Colors follow your active VS Code theme. This extension provides syntax highlighting, not diagnostics, completion, or a language server.

Install

From this directory, with Node.js and npm installed:

npm run package
code --install-extension blbx-language-0.1.0.vsix

Alternatively, run Extensions: Install from VSIX... in VS Code and select the generated file. Open a .bx file; its language mode should be BLBX. If the file is already open, use Developer: Reload Window after installing.

The blbx publisher is a local package identifier. Marketplace publication requires an account with a publisher ID you own.

Develop

Open this directory as a VS Code workspace and press F5 to launch the extension development host with the language tour. No compilation is required. Use Developer: Inspect Editor Tokens and Scopes to inspect highlighting.

The grammar follows the project's lexer and parser. Strings use double quotes and can span lines; comments use // or /* ... */. Arithmetic and comparisons mostly use method calls such as value.add(1) and value.eq(2).

VS Code's syntax highlighting guide explains the TextMate grammar format used here.