NianioLang Dev Kit

NianioLang Dev Kit is a Visual Studio Code extension that provides a full-featured development experience for the NianioLang programming language. It goes far beyond basic syntax highlighting and offers powerful IDE-like features to streamline your coding workflow.

Features

• Syntax Highlighting: Advanced TextMate grammar for clear and precise code coloring.

• Go To Definition: Quickly navigate to a function’s definition within the current or external modules using Ctrl+Click.

• IntelliSense & Code Completion: Autocomplete function names and view inline signature help with parameter information and return types.

• Signature Help: Automatically display parameter hints as you type, with active parameter highlighting (trigger with Ctrl+Shift+Space or via autocompletion).

• Diagnostics: Real-time error detection for issues like missing module imports and incorrect parameter counts.

• Quick Fixes (Code Actions): Instantly add missing module imports or convert a private method into a public one.

• Syntax highlighting: Advanced TextMate grammar for clear and precise code coloring

• Go To Definition: Ctrl+Click (or F12) to navigate to a function’s definition within the current module or external modules

• IntelliSense & Code Completion: Autocomplete module names, public and private functions, variables and fields; insert snippets with parameter placeholders

• Signature Help: Automatic parameter hints as you type inside call parentheses, with active parameter highlighting (trigger manually with Ctrl+Shift+Space)

• Diagnostics: Real-time error detection for missing imports, incorrect parameter counts, unused or duplicated modules, incorrect module names and more

• Quick Fixes (Code Actions): Add missing module imports, remove unused imports, convert private methods into public ones, fix module names, remove all unnecessary usings in a file

• Rename Symbol: Rename definitions and all references across modules

• Find References: Show all locations where a symbol is used

• Hover: Display type constructor information on variables and functions

• Code Lens: Shows reference counts above each method

• Pretty Print: Commands to format the entire module or the current method (extension.prettyPrintModule, extension.prettyPrintMethod)

• On-Save Actions: Configurable options to remove unused modules, add missing modules, fix module names and pretty print on save

• File Watchers: Automatically reload and reindex .nl files when they are created, changed or deleted

• Update Diagnostics: Command to re-run diagnostics on all .nl files (extension.updateAllDiagnostics)

• Refactor to JavaScript: Experimental command to convert a NianioLang module into a JavaScript file (extension.refactorToJS)

Configuration

NianioLang Dev Kit activates automatically on files with the nianiolang language mode. For advanced users, keybindings and other settings can be customized in VS Code’s settings.

• nianiolang.onSave.prettyPrint (string) - none | Current module | Current method
• nianiolang.onSave.removeUnusedModules (boolean)
• nianiolang.onSave.addMissingModules (boolean)
• nianiolang.onSave.fixModuleNames (boolean)
• nianiolang.onPrettyPrintModule.removeMod (boolean)
• nianiolang.onPrettyPrintModule.printNewStamp (boolean)
• nianiolang.onMethodHover.showReferenceCount (boolean)
• nianiolang.onFieldHover.showReferenceCount (boolean)

License

This extension is licensed under the MIT License.

Feedback

Please open issues or submit pull requests on our GitHub repository to help us improve NianioLang Dev Kit. This is a fork of NianioLang-Code extension.