KernRift Language Support
Editor support for the KernRift
systems programming language — syntax highlighting plus a language server that
drives live diagnostics and IntelliSense from the real compiler.
Features
- Syntax highlighting for
.kr files, with a file icon (blue cracked K) in
the explorer and tabs.
- Live diagnostics — errors and warnings from
krc check, mapped to the
exact line and column as you type.
- IntelliSense — completions, hover docs, and go-to-definition for
keywords, built-ins, types, functions, structs, and enums.
Highlighting covers:
- Integer types — short aliases
u8/u16/u32/u64, i8/i16/i32/i64
and long forms uint8..int64.
- Floating point —
f16, f32, f64.
- Built-in functions — pointer ops (
load8..64, store8..64), volatile ops
(vload/vstore8..64), atomics (atomic_load/store/cas/add/...), bitfield ops
(bit_get/set/clear/range/insert), signed compares (signed_lt/gt/le/ge),
string output (print_str, println_str), and platform hooks
(get_target_os, get_arch_id, syscall_raw, exec_process).
- Keywords including
let, match, loop, defer, for, while, and the
declaration set (fn, struct, enum, static, const, device, ...).
device blocks for MMIO: device NAME at ADDR { FIELD at OFF : TYPE rw }.- Static and struct arrays (
static u8[N] name, Point[10] pts), slice
parameters (fn foo([u8] data) with data.len), and method syntax
(fn Point.sum(Point self) -> u64).
- Annotations (
@export, @noreturn, @naked, @packed, @section("name"))
and the #lang directive (#lang stable / #lang experimental).
- String/char literals with escapes, line (
//) and block (/* */) comments,
auto-closing brackets, indentation, and folding.
Requirements
Syntax highlighting works on its own. Diagnostics and hover docs need the
krc compiler installed — the language server shells out to krc check. If
krc is not found, highlighting and completions still work, but no errors are
reported.
Install the compiler from kernrift.org (or via
Homebrew / apt / Scoop / AUR — see the
repository), and make sure
krc is on your PATH or set kernrift.compilerPath below.
Extension Settings
| Setting |
Default |
Description |
kernrift.compilerPath |
krc |
Path to the krc compiler binary used for diagnostics. Set this if krc is not on your PATH. |
About KernRift
KernRift is a self-hosted, bare-metal systems language. It compiles itself
ahead-of-time to native machine code — no VM, no interpreter, no runtime, no
libc. One .krbo fat binary contains all 8 platform slices
(Linux / macOS / Windows / Android × x86_64 / ARM64); a small kr runner
extracts the matching slice at startup and executes it. Self-host bootstrap
fixed point is verified by CI on every push.
The compiler is written entirely in KernRift and includes an SSA IR backend,
graph-coloring register allocator, constant folding / DCE / CSE, and per-target
ELF / Mach-O / PE emitters — no LLVM, no external assembler, no external linker.
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