The Sloppy language: highlighting, errors as you type, hover, go to definition, references, rename, completion, signature help, inlay type hints, outline; run files in a terminal or the browser
Installation
Launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl+P), paste the following command, and press enter.
Support for Sloppy, a small compiled language for making games that
feels like a scripting language:
highlighting
errors as you type (several at once, when they are in different functions)
hover: types, signatures and doc comments
go to definition (also into the standard library), find references, highlight uses, rename
completion: names in scope, fields and functions after ., enum variants after a bare .
signature help while typing arguments
inlay hints: the inferred types of variables and function results
outline (document symbols)
run the file in a terminal (Ctrl+F5, or the run button), in the browser, or its tests
The language features come from the compiler itself: sloppy lsp is a language server that any
editor with LSP support can use.
The compiler
The extension needs the sloppy compiler (Linux x86-64). If it cannot find one, it offers to
install the latest release into ~/.sloppy; or install it from a terminal, which also puts it
on your PATH:
curl -fsSL https://sloppy-lang.org/install | bash
sloppy update (or the command Sloppy: Install or Update the Sloppy Compiler) installs newer
releases.
The extension uses the setting sloppy.path if it is set, else bin/sloppy when the Sloppy
repository is the open folder, else sloppy from the PATH, else ~/.sloppy/bin/sloppy.
Links
sloppy-lang.org: the language, its standard library, and a playground
