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Jal

Sunish Issac

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Just Another Language for PIC microcontrollers
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Launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl+P), paste the following command, and press enter.
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Just Another Language (JAL) Visual Studio Code Extension README

JAL (Just another Language) is an open source programming language for 8 bit PIC microcontrollers. It was originally created by Wouter Van Ooijen and later rewritten as JALV2 by Kyle York.

Current version of JAL compiler and libraries are maintained by Jallib team.

JAL had jaledit as its IDE for a long long time, almost from the begining of JALV2. It worked pretty well on Windows but was not updated since 2010. Being its author I felt VSCode might be a pretty good IDE which can be extended using its extension framework.

It's a big learning curve for me as it was developed in Delphi whereas vscode works with node/Javascript/Typescript. Will try to implement all the features of jaledit in this extension.

Features

  • Extremely fast loading/saving of the largest jal files

  • VSCode features like commenting, searching, file explorer

  • Git support within vscode

  • Builtin comparison tool

  • Auto completion loading biggest file in jallib

  • Syntax highlighting

    • Comments (-- & ;)
    • Keywords (Control, Operator, Other)
    • Constants (Language,Numeric,Other)
    • Strings (Single/Double quote)
  • Code Folding

    • Procedures
    • Functions
    • Loops
    • Blocks code folding and commenting
  • Intellisense, Code Snippets and Comment

    Partial intellisense without language server Intellisense,code snippets and commenting

  • Build using User tasks.json

    • Works on Windows and Linux

Build Fail

  • Jaledit Theme

    Theme added to highlight syntaxes which were not differentiated by default VSCode themes.

    • Jaledit like Light Theme
    • Jaledit Dark theme

Jaledit Light and Dark themes

Requirements

Prerequisites JAL compiler is required. You can download the compiler and libraries from http://www.justanotherlanguage.org/downloads/ or https://github.com/jallib/jallib

Configure Tasks to build the jal file (User Level)

  1. Copy the below json text to Clipboard.
  2. Press Ctrl-Shift-P.
  3. Type/select "Tasks:Open User Tasks".
  4. Select Others (Example to run arbitary command).
  5. In the opened tasks.json paste the text from clipboard.
  6. Close the tab and you are ready to compile the JAL file.

tasks.json config

{
    // prefilled tasks.json for compiling a JAL file
    "version": "2.0.0",
    "tasks": [
        {
            "label": "Compile JAL File",
            "type": "process",
            "command": "${config:jal.paths.exePath}",
            "args": [
                "${file}",
                "-s",
                "${config:jal.paths.LibPath}"
            ],
            "presentation": {
                "reveal": "always",
                "panel": "new"
            },
            "problemMatcher": [],
            "group": {
                "kind": "build",
                "isDefault": true
            }
        }
    ]
}

Extension Settings

You can configure the executable path and library path by going to VS Code preferences * Extensions -JAL Paths with \ and \ both work. Multiple library paths can be separated with ;

Known Issues

Opening include files,library files not possible unless file is in the same directory

No debugging

Release Notes

* Two themes added to highlight syntaxes which were not differentiated by default VSCode themes.
* Changed Icon
* Added missing keywords

Change Log

See the Change log for details about the changes in each version.

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