Globw for VS Code

Language support for Globw — a statically typed, interpreted language (.gw files). Syntax highlighting, a run button, live error checking, completion, hover and formatting, right in the editor.

Features

• Syntax highlighting for .gw files (keywords, types, strings, numbers, comments, built-in modules).
• Run the current program with one click (the ▶ button in the editor title bar) or by pressing F5 — the output opens in an integrated terminal.
• Live errors: your file is checked on open and on save, and the errors are underlined in place (including errors in the modules it imports).
• Completion for every built-in function and the language keywords.
• Hover over a built-in to see its signature.
• Format Document (Shift+Alt+F): re-indents the file to canonical form.
• A file icon for .gw files.

Tip: gw --repl opens an interactive session where you can try expressions, declarations and even multi-line function/for blocks.

Requirements

You need the Globw interpreter, the gw executable:

1. Download it from the releases (or build it from source), then either
2. add its folder to your PATH (so gw works from any terminal), or
3. set globw.path in the settings to the full path of gw (gw.exe on Windows).

If the extension is opened inside the Globw repository, it also picks up a local target/release/gw build automatically.

Usage

Open any .gw file:

output("Hello from Globw!")

Press F5 (or click ▶) to run it. Save the file to see errors underlined.

Settings

License

Apache-2.0 — © 2026 Globw.