Jac Extension

This extension provides support for the Jac programming language. It provides syntax highlighting and leverages the LSP to provide a rich editing experience.

Quick Start

All that is needed is to have jac installed (i.e. pip install jaclang) and the jac command line tool present in your environment.

Installation

Supported IDEs: VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, VSCodium, Gitpod, Eclipse Theia

1. Open the Extensions panel - Ctrl+Shift+X / Cmd+Shift+X
2. Search jaclang
3. Click Install on "Jac" by Jaseci Labs

Manual Install (VSIX): Download from GitHub Releases, then use Extensions: Install from VSIX... in Command Palette.

Debugging Jaclang

Note that it'll install python extention for vscode as a dependecy as it is needed to debug the python bytecode that jaclang produce.

To debug a jac file a launch.json file needs to created with the debug configurations. This can simply generated with:

1. Goto the debug options at the left pannel.
2. click "create a launch.json file"
3. Select Jac Debug Option

This will create a debug configration to run and debug a single jac file, Here is the default sinppit, modify it as your preference to debug different types of applications or modules.

{
    "version": "0.2.0",
    "configurations": [
        {
            "type": "debugpy",
            "request": "launch",
            "name": "Run a jac file",
            "program": "${command:extension.jaclang-extension.getJacPath}",
            "args": "run ${file}"
        }
    ]
}

This animated GIF bellow will demonstrate on the steps discuessed above.

To visualize the Jac graph while debugging, open the graph visualize view using the command jacvis: Visualize Jac Graph in the command palette, (shortcut for command palette is ctrl+shift+p)

Features

• Code completion
• Syntax highlighting
• Snippets
• Go to definition
• Document symbols, workspace symbols
• Variables hint, and documentation on hover
• Diagnostics

Developer Mode

Developer mode enables additional tools for extension development and debugging. To enable it:

1. Open Command Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P)
2. Run Jac: Toggle Developer Mode

When enabled, the following features become available:

• Restart Language Server - Button in editor title bar to restart the LSP server
• Inspect Token Scopes - Dumps all TextMate token scopes for the current Jac file to help debug syntax highlighting

Releasing (Maintainers)

1. Go to Actions → Create Release PR
2. Select version bump type (patch/minor/major)
3. A PR will be created with the version bump
4. Review and merge the PR
5. Go to Actions → Release Extension
6. Click Run workflow to publish to VS Code Marketplace and OpenVSX