Aurora Language Support

A Visual Studio Code extension providing language support for Aurora, an object-oriented scripting language where everything is treated as an object.

✨ Features

🔹 Intelligent Autocomplete

• Suggests built-in objects (e.g. String, Int, Terminal)

• Context-aware method suggestions:

  String.
  

  → create, concat, etc.

• Variable-aware autocomplete:

  String.create(name="Liam")
  name.
  

  → String instance methods like substring, contains, etc.

🔹 Parameter Suggestions

Autocomplete for method parameters:

Terminal.readInt(

→

• message=
• min=
• max=

Automatically filters out parameters already used.

🔹 Syntax Highlighting

Highlights:

• Built-in types (String, Int, Terminal, etc.)
• Methods
• Strings
• Numbers
• Named parameters

🔹 Auto-Closing Pairs

Automatically inserts:

• () for method calls
• "" for strings

🔹 Run Button ▶

Run Aurora files directly from the editor.

• Appears when editing .aur files

• Executes:

  aurora yourfile.aur
  

• Uses an integrated terminal (no debugger required)

🚀 Getting Started

1. Install the Aurora CLI

Ensure the aurora command is available globally:

aurora file.aur

2. Create a File

Create a file with the .aur extension:

String.create(name=Terminal.readLine("What is your name? "; default="n/a"))

Int.create(age=Terminal.readInt("How old are you? "; min=0; max=100))

Terminal.writeLine("You are called"; name; "and you are"; age; "years old")

🧠 Language Overview

Aurora is designed around a simple principle:

Everything is an object.

There are:

• No traditional keywords (if, for, etc.)

• All operations are performed via object methods

• Variables are created using:

  Type.create(name=value)
  

📦 Supported Built-in Objects (partial)

• String
• Int
• Float
• Boolean
• Terminal
• Optional
• Math

⚠️ Known Limitations

• No full type inference (yet)
• Limited scope awareness
• Nested expressions may not always resolve correctly
• Signature help and hover info are not implemented (planned)

📌 Roadmap

• Signature help (parameter hints while typing)
• Hover documentation
• Error diagnostics from Aurora runtime
• Improved type inference
• Full Language Server (LSP) integration

💬 Feedback

This extension is under active development. Suggestions, issues, and improvements are welcome.